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purpose. I admit this is difficult : it requires 

 the " trained capacity " and the outside grasp 

 of a situation which can only come from 

 experience. It is so natural to think that 

 if you start a thing on carefully approved 

 lines, given ordinary care and attention it is 

 bound to succeed, and you will make it a 

 personal matter that it should succeed, but 

 when the hard fact comes that you are not 

 getting a proper return for your money, 

 your labour, your personal outlay, then the 

 necessity arises to reform or to change. 

 An nius- To illustrate my point with reference to 

 the necessity for good ground for fruit trees. 

 I have in my mind a certain piece of land in 

 which I was interested some years back. I 

 was advised to rent and turn it into a market 

 garden and fruit farm. In my inexperience 

 I thought the advice good, and entered upon 

 my possession with all the ardour of a landed 

 proprietor. The rent was fixed at a price 

 absolutely prohibitive to successful market 

 gardening, namely at 5 an acre, and there 



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