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about between farmers, in different parts of the country, 
which would result in advantage to both parties. Seeds 
could be exchanged, and information upon various subjects 
given and received. If farmers would write and study 
more and work less, they would get rich sooner, live 
longer, and be more happy. 
When the seeds wanted can not be procured in this 
way, then write to some seedsman for them, always send- 
ing in your order early; never wait until it is time to sow 
the seeds before ordering them. Few seedsmen save any 
more than they are likely to sell, not wishing to incur the 
expense of having a large quantity gathered to supply an 
uncertain demand. 
And here let me say to those who are about ordering 
seeds: You will not only be more certain of getting what 
you want, but you will accommodate the seedsman by 
sending your order a month—yes, six months—before you 
require them. It is not necessary that you should send 
the full amount of cost with the order, but you should 
send a small sum, unless you are personally known to the 
one to whom you send your order. If you wish to buy — 
fifty or one hundred dollars’ worth, send five or ten dollars 
along with the order, as this will show that you are in 
earnest and intend to buy what you have asked for, and 
your order will be put on the order-book. If you merely 
write saying that at some future time you will want such 
articles, ten to one your letter goes into the waste-basket 
and no notice taken of it. Perhaps Mr. Seedsman has ten 
just such letters from different parties the same day yours 
reached him, and he knows from past experience that prob- 
