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do some of the manufactured articles on which 

 we have an established basis of judgment. 



A good mechanic knows a good tool when he 

 sees it. Usually he does not have to look for 

 the trade-mark of the reliable manufacturer 

 with which it is branded. He knows too that 

 such quality tools are "expensive" — at least in 

 first cost. One can go to the "5 & 10" and pur- 

 chase a saw or a pair of pliers for a few cents, 

 but the good mechanic would know that such 

 tools were only a makeshift and would not 

 give them room in his kit. Sooner or later, he 

 would know, the pliers would fail him or the 

 saw would buckle just at a time when he would 

 need it most. 



Even a person who is not a good mechanic 

 would know better than to buy a pair of pliers 

 with cracked jaws or a saw that had lost a few 

 teeth or any tool that was eaten with rust. 



"Certainly," you will say, "that is only com- 

 mon sense." And yet, persons with supposedly 

 "common sense" make just such bargains 

 when they purchase certain kinds of nursery 

 stock. Time after time I have seen planters 

 unpack stock that was fit only to adorn a brush 

 pile. They planted it cheerfully under the hope 

 that it might "grow out of it." Its low price 

 was the only attraction it had and that had 

 been enough to procure a sale. 



Most orchard planters really desire to ob- 



