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Court, one of the Supreme Court, and one of the United 

 States Circuit, and they each agreed that my friend's remark 

 was about true, and that in most cases litigants would 

 do as well without lawyers as with them. 



If that is true, what chance is there that an uneducated 

 man who has "raised garden sass ever since he was a boy, 

 and seen his father do it before him," can teach you cor- 

 rectly ? 



Men learn very slowly by experience, because no two ex- 

 periences are exactly alike, unless they perceive and apply 

 the principles under the experience. 



An intelligent man accustomed to investigation can learn 

 more about a specialty in a week's study than an untrained 

 practitioner can believe in a year. 



What the untrained teacher can tell us is of little account ; 

 what he shows us is another matter. 



Therefore get help who know that they don't know 

 anything about a garden and who consequently will do with 

 a will exactly what you tell them to do ; such labor is cheap 

 why should you pay extravagant prices for skill to a man 

 who has succeeded so poorly that he can only earn day's 

 wages ? You can get much better knowledge at less cost 

 from a book. Study and put your knowledge into practice 

 yourself, where you see promise of a profit. 



Almost every crop can be made a specialty. In proportion 

 as special crops are profitable when conditions are right, so 

 are they sources of loss when things go wrong. If, after your 

 first season in the country, some special crop takes your 

 fancy, give extra space and time to it the second year and 

 see if you are successful in handling an eighth or a quarter 

 acre. If so, you may extend your operations as rapidly as 

 purse and market permit. 



