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sold to speculators, who buy them to hold in store till their season ar- 

 rives, and who must be paid for the venture. 



If the producer would be more patient and hold his Jennets back 

 till the market was ready to receive them he would realize much better 

 prices, and we would not hear so much about the unprofitableness of 

 this very excellent apple. 



THE MISTAKES AND DISAPPOINTMENTS OF THE HORTI- 

 CULTURIST. 



C. C. BELL, BOONVILLE, MO. 



Since nature by fixed and unchangeable laws "wisely ordained by 

 that all creative power," is continually changing matter, together with 

 this progressive age in which we live, it would require supernatural 

 powers of foretelling the future and controlling the elements to make 

 it possible to avoid all mistakes and disappointments in life. 



But since mankind is not endowed with such superhuman powers, 

 we must content ourselves with the natural condition of things and 

 make most of the powers at our command. 



We find, therefore, that in all vocations of life, success and failure 

 go ha*nd in hand, and where often the brightest hopes are entertained, 

 we are not seldom beset by disappointments. But while many disap- 

 pointments are due to the uncontrollable causes, we find by careful 

 observation, that the majority of failures are the natural consequences 

 of mistakes and mismanagement on our part. 



As a rale, our success should be credited chiefly to the knowledge 

 we possess of our calling, and its practical and proper application, 

 rather than what some may term "luck." 



This great truth is apparent everywhere. We see here a business 

 man, well equipped with goods, money and health, and apparently noth- 

 ing in his way on his road to success, yet we soon find him losing 

 ground, and finally he makes a wreck and a failure while his neighbor, 

 who started poor and in debt, grows up side by side, to prominence 

 and wealth. The one makes a success, with no advantages to start out 

 while the other with all at his command makes a failure. 



In days of dark superstition this might have been ascribed to the 

 work of imaginary forces— to the mythical gods of fortune or misfor- 



