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is no one else, you must do some of it yourself ; the weather 

 will not wait for you to "get a man," and if you are not will- 

 ing to do such things, your chances of success are greatly 

 lessened. 



Here is the experience of one who "got a man" : 

 "My garden, to begin with, was in the most rudimentary 

 condition, having been allowed to run to grass. After 

 digging up a spot about ten feet square in the turf, taking 

 the early morning for the work, I decided that it would re- 

 quire all summer to get the garden fairly spaded up, so I 

 hired a stalwart Irishman to do the work for me, which he 

 did in a week, charging me nine dollars for the job. As he 

 professed to be also an expert in planting vegetables, I 

 bought a supply of seeds in the city and intrusted them to 

 him, assuring myself that once in the ground the rest of the 

 work would fall to me ; if I could not keep a garden patch 

 fifty feet square clear of weeds, I had better abandon the 

 business at once, and all hopes of making a living out of 

 scientific gardening. The beginning was an unfortunate 

 one. The weather happened to be first very wet, and then 

 so dry and hot that my vegetables were unable to break 

 their way through the baked earth. When my peas and 

 beans still gave no signs after being in the ground for two 

 weeks, I discovered that the whole work would have to be 

 done over again. A Presidential campaign was beginning, 

 which kept me in town often late at night, so that the chief 

 labor of the garden fell to my faithful Irishman, who got 

 far more satisfaction out of it than I did. The vegetables 

 finally did come up above the surface, and many an evening 

 I finished a hard day's work by pumping and carrying hun- 

 dreds of gallons of water to pour upon potato plants, toma- 

 toes, beans, and other things which a friend of mine, an 



