times, markets won't wait, and the man who wants to get on must produce as quickly as possible. To do so, he must have the best tools. They will pay for themselves

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istake of buying too many things and these poorly selected. It is better to have too few tools than too many, for tools are often dropped where last used, and so are lost. Then if money is scarce, you may not be able to make a shelter for your machines and tools, and they will rust through the winter. Many farmers, through neglect, have to replace their tool equ

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s Warner says, "at the best you will conclude that for gardening purposes

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weeds which are just starting above ground. It is pushed backward and forward and

ansportation and markets, a large supply of stable manure, hotbeds for raising plants, crates for shipping, wagons for delivering, and a complete outfit of tools are necessary. You must raise all sorts of vegetables

high fertility needed for maximum production. Crops like asparagus and rhubarb take two years to establish on a remunerative basis. If bus

berries, etc. and one acre kept for buildings, poultry, etc. An energetic man could clear one thousand dollars a year besides his living, after he got a st

n umbrella in the ground we should expect to see it blossom out into parasols-

practical men. Do not let some experienced ignoramus talk you out of experimenting under their guidance. You wi

y knows his own business. You must have noticed that few of the peo

not shave you against the grain of the skin. Even the cat won't stan

nows his business." He said, "That is a gross overestimate." Shortly after I talked with three Judges, one of the City Court, one of the Supreme Court, and one of t

n who has "raised garden sass ever since he was a boy, and

o experiences are exactly alike, unless they perce

learn more about a specialty in a week's study th

ell us is of little account; wha

o; such labor is cheap-why should you pay extravagant prices for skill to a man who has succeeded so poorly that he can only earn day's wages? Yo

n things go wrong. If, after your first season in the country, some special crop takes your fancy, give extra space and time to it the second year

st be made of all the conditions surrounding its production; a crop is not produced

vating, and harvesting the crop. The good shipping and keeping qualities of the potato enable it to be raised far from markets and so brings into competition cheap land

rably increased. As soon as any important part must be trusted to some one beyond your control, danger arises. Assiduous care in planting, cultivating, and packing will avail nothing if the product falls into the hands of t

nse. So uncertain is the business, that even with all these facilities, they rarely guarantee seeds. It is obvious that the amateur has little chance of succeeding in such a difficult business. Nevertheless, he will be able after a few seasons of increasing experience to gather seeds from

the expense for labor is the same. In farming small areas for specialties you cannot easily invoke the principle of rotation by enriching the land with legumes, to be plow

be hauled to canneries. The first type are generally prepared in a more expensive way, and need more care and attention.

to make it loose and porous; it must be free from sticks and stones or any foreign matter likely to impede cultivation or obstruct growth. The proper formation of a seed bed is a prime

re of the plant Delicate plants, for example, ought to be grown where buildings or forests break the force of prevailing winds. Sheltered valleys in irrigated sections have proved the best for intensive cultivation. For thousands of years in China and Japan the conditions of