12 PRIZE GARDENING 



"We were empty-handed on taking- possession of 

 the place; our entire assets consisted of a Hmited 

 amount of household furniture, one hoe, one shovel, 

 two forks, a buggy and horse with a chattel mortgage 

 blanket upon it, and two thousand dollars invested in 

 baby girl securities. With no tools but our hands the 

 work was laborious. Our seed was purchased on 

 short time and our first cash investment was a 

 year's subscription to an agricultural paper. Crops 

 soon gladdened our eyes. A Jersey cow was soon 

 purchased, then pig-s and chickens, which also 

 proved a source of revenue. Fruit, flowers and vege- 

 tables were carefully prepared for market and sold 

 at fancy prices as soon as matured. Within five 

 months the last payment was made on the cow and 

 the chattel mortgage, and a goodly supply of fruit, 

 vegetables and potatoes stored away for winter's use. 

 During these years a willing and helpful wife has ren- 

 dered valuable aid in all ways. Tribute has been laid 

 on every help within our reach, on agricultural papers, 

 of which we have four weeklies and several monthlies, 

 books, bulletins, attendance upon farmers' institutes, 

 etc. Our work has been the breeding up and improve- 

 ment of different fruits, flowers and vegetables. Quite 

 a good deal of writing has been done for agricultural 

 papers -by both of us. Our dark forcing experiments 

 are confined to the winter months and are opening up 

 new fields of profit." 



In regard to the tools used, Mr. Morse says: 

 " Aside from the plowing and rolling of the ground, 

 no implements outside the Planet Jr family were used. 

 Even the hand hoe was almost unthought of and very 

 little needed. The double wheel hoe with all attach- 

 ments seems capable of more varied uses than any 

 other implement with which I am acquainted. The 

 multitude of uses for which so many of the implements 



