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cised. The merchant would be regarded as 

 very ignorant, to say the least, who should lay 

 in a large stock that he couW not sell ; and the 

 agriculturist is equally lacking who plants his 

 land with that for which there is little or no re- 

 quest. 



Having learned what is reasonably sure of a 

 prompt sale, judgment must be used in respect 

 to what crops shall be grown, and how much of 

 each ; for there is usually quite a varied choice 

 permitted to the grower. 



Again, a little shrewdness in the introduction 

 of a new thing will often create a market. 



This is speaking generally. In the following 

 remarks I will try to be as specific as I can, and 

 to give the character of my own market. And 

 yet it is mainly on general principles that one 

 must speak, for this question of a market is so 

 modified by local circumstances, that nothing 

 said of one place will exactly apply to another. 



