CHAPTER II. 



FIRST GROWERS. 



Difficulties of Cultivation — Failures, and their Causes — 

 The Fruits of Experience — Average Yields of early 

 Crops. 



Most new enterprises and undertakings have been 

 attended with difficulty. For the want of correct know- 

 ledge, supported by experience, disappointment and 

 failure have frequently been the result of efforts which 

 have been sought to be crowned with success. There 

 is not the commonest root or vegetable on the farm, 

 but what requires knowledge and experience in its 

 management. 



Some individuals suddenly determine upon quitting 

 the city store, and make choice of a farmer's profession 

 as that which they intend to follow in the future of 

 their lives. But any person, who knows even little 

 of agriculture, is certain of this, that such an inexperi- 

 enced individual is sure to meet with difficulties in 

 his new calling which will be discouraging ; and be- 



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