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worth. The tools upon the market garden should be the best and 

 of the most approved pattern. They should be kept m perfect order 

 and in a building expressly for the purpose. 



A plan of the place should be marked out early in the winter, 

 and it should be definitely settled what crop is to be put into each 

 piece the following season. This will enable you to get the manure 

 into position— the different kinds for the different crops PLstimate 

 the quantity of seeds required by the size of the piece to be planted. 

 Look the tools over carefully and have them put in the best of order. 

 Do everything that can be done before the ground opens. 



With the work all planned, the seed bought, the manure in place 

 and the tools all ready, you can go to work, and in the busy time 

 of planting you will appreciate all that has been done in the winter, 

 you will be able to keep up with the work, and you will see how 

 important it is to get everything ready, as I have described. 



I would therefore advise young meu who are thinking of taking 

 up the market gardening business, to carefully study the require- 

 ments and then fit themselves to fill them. By following the sug- 

 gestions I have offered they will be fitted to carr}^ on the business 

 with satisfaction and profit. Some may ask : How can the neces- 

 sary education be obtained? I would say to them : Complete your 

 grammar school course, spend one or two years in a commercial 

 college, go to the Agricultural College, and after that course is 

 completed, spend one year in the Experiment Station. Then 

 engage yourself to the best market gardener you know of who will 

 take you for three or five years. Then you will be fitted to take a 

 position as a foreman, or you can carry on the business for your- 

 self. 



Some may ask : Are there any positions for j^oung meu with the 

 education you have described ? I will say that there are, and I 

 have some waiting to be filled at the present time, and can find no 

 one to take them. There is a good salar}^ waiting the position for 

 the right man. Ttiis business is in the advance line of agriculture. 

 It has never been brought to the notice of agriculturists as it should 

 have been, but it is now, or soon will be, in the front, even though 

 it is but in its infancy. It is that kind of a business that requires 

 special training and a practical knowledge to secure satisfactory 

 results. The amount of capital required is quite large, but not 

 more so than is necessary in other lines of business carried on at 

 the present time. 



