XX THE WHYS AND WHEREFORES 



fox Sped through woods, and fields, and meadows, 

 playing one trick after another, in the vain attempt to 

 throw the hounds off the scent. The pursuers 

 remained on his track, and finally overtook and 

 grabbed him. 



In his dying moments he looked up and saw the 

 cat in the top of a tree, safe from harm. "Your one 

 trick is worth more than my whole bagful," sighed he, 

 and expired. 



Many farmers are situated pretty much like the 

 fox in the fable. They have a whole bagful of tricks 

 by which they hope to escape the usurer and the 

 sheriff. They raise a little wheat, and a little oats, a 

 few potatoes, a little hops, some berries, a few hogs, or 

 a cow, a horse, etc, things which often cost them one 

 dollar and a quarter for every dollar they get for them. 

 They try one trick after another, or two or three at a 

 time, changing from one thing to another; and the 

 harder they try, the harder they find themselves 

 pressed, and at last — pity 'tis, 'tis true — in only too 

 many cases they meet a fate somewhat like the fox's. 



The whole bagful of ordinary tricks does not save 

 them ; but the one special cat's trick of climbing up to 

 the top of the tree or ladder will never fail to give a 

 way of escape. To rise above the heads of the crowd — 

 that is the trick worth knowing. Learn the one trick 

 well, and you'll be safe. 



What I wish to do in this little work, is to tell of a 

 genuine cat's trick which I have recently discovered — 

 the trick of climbing up to the top in onion culture. 

 To grow larger and better bulbs, and more bushels on a 

 given area, than anybody else, has always been my aim 

 as an onion grower. Yet it would be a rash move for 

 me to defy the competition of growers anywhere who 

 have learned and adopted my methods. This is a case 



