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IGNORANCE, NEGLECT, AND 

 CARELESSNESS 



HAVING our plans turn out a success, means we 

 must know what to do, and how to do it, and we 

 must be ready to do it NOW. Ignorance, neglect 

 and carelessness account for more failures than all 

 other causes combined. 



And when failures come, how hard it usually is 

 to view impartially both sides of the question, and 

 how easy it seems to place the blame for failure 

 on the shoulders of the grower or seller, when per- 

 haps the fault might be laid right at our own door, 

 or possibly, due to unseasonable or unfavorable 

 weather or other natural conditions, neither may 

 be at fault. 



If most of the planting grows and a few plants 

 fail, some will reason along this line. "The plants 

 were all given the same care, and if they were all 

 good how is it that most of them have grown and 

 a few have died out ?" The only answer we can give 

 is that the ways of Nature are past finding out. 



Possibly another person may have the acme of 

 poor luck and lose an entire planting, and then 

 feel prone to think that the plants were no good, 

 or surely some out of the lot would have pulled 

 through. And betwixt the two the poor grower 



