THE TIM BUJSKER PAPERS. 37 



Now you sec I tried this planting of seeds gathered 

 from the odds and ends of the garden, for rising of forty 

 years, and I think it is a penny wise business my onions 

 used to be scullions, my cabbages did not head well, and 

 the tap-roots would often run to seed the first year. Last 

 spring, you see, when I went down to the city to sell rny 

 beef cattle, I went to a first-rate agricultural store, and 

 spent about ten dollars in garden seeds. It was those 

 seed, as well as the subsoil plowing and manuring, that 

 enabled me to take the premiums at the Fair. Seth 

 Tvviggs came along the day I was putting them into the 

 cellar, and said : &quot; Waal, Squire Bunker, I dew declare, I 

 never saw such a sight of garden sass going into your 

 cellar afore ! &quot; 



Seth was right. I never had such roots or cabbage 

 heads. It was fun to pull them. And I have pretty much 

 made up my mind that seed is one of the chief points in 

 good farming. I think there is a difference of one 

 quarter in the crop between good seed and poor. So, 

 when I went down to the city this spring, I took time by 

 the forelock, and got another lot of seed at the same place. 

 And I want to say to all your readers in Hookertown, and 

 the rest of Connecticut, that if they expect to compete 

 with me at the fair next fall, they must burn up the old 

 seed, papers, basket and all, and get the best in the mar 

 ket. It is a penny wise business to use poor old seed in 

 the spring, and mighty pound foolish in the fall. 



NO. 13. BOOK FARMING IN HOOKERTOWN. 



ME. EDITOR. I suppose every man likes to know how 

 the truck he sends to market suits his customers. At 

 any rate that is the case at my house, where a good re 

 port of the butter and a call for more is certain to keep 



