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Inmber necessary for my purpose. 7. Will the Club inform me if it 

 would be profitable to raise tomatoes for the large markets also ? 

 Perhaps 1 have written too much for the patience of your Club ; bnt 

 I am anxious to learn all I can. 



Mr, J. B. Lyman. — The case of this young man in pursuit of 

 knowledge might be disposed of in one line by sending him Fuller's 

 answer. Get Henderson's Book on Gardening for Profit : but he is 

 young, his wife younger, his soil iu a state of virgin purity, his hill- 

 side has a pitch of 45^, he is anxious to begin life at the right point, 

 and wants to learn all he can. We exhort Mr. Sage not to be dis- 

 heartened if he finds difiiculties, not to give up if his cabbage don't 

 head, and the young wife not to cry if the baby doesn't have a lace 

 bib. To the questions, 



1. Don't go deep into cabbage to begin with. You have to know 

 cabbage as Peter Henderson does before it will make you rich as it 

 has him. Your land is not now rich enough to make a market 

 garden. 



2. That is not Henderson's way, nor the practice of any of our 

 great cabbage growers. They start in beds and ti-ansplant. 



3. Onion sets also are a very exacting crop and risky. Why not 

 get the seeds and sow in the usual way, then sell the big ones and 

 keep the small ones over for sets and for seed next year. 



4. The Club cannot inform you where to get poppy seed, and we 

 discourage opium growing. Enough of corn is made into whisky, 

 enough fruit into brandy, enough hops are grown for lager. If Mr. 

 Sage really means to begin life at the right point, let him commence 

 by growing food, not poison. 



5. We do not advise sending cabbage and onions 300 miles by rail 

 when you have a town of such size within a mile. 



6. You don't want hot beds now. 



7. You will not find it profitable to raise tomatoes for the large 

 markets, they will not bear transportation to distant cities ; you will 

 get them in when everybody does, and they will sell for nothing; 

 the middle men and hucksters would get it all if they did sell for 

 anything. Now let us look into your case a little deeper. You have 

 thirty-five acres, some of it is poor and wild, a few acres are smooth. 

 You want to begin with a crop that will stand rough land. We 

 advise late potatoes. Get them in at once. As soon as they come 

 up, bury them again ; then do nothing to them but kill the weeds 

 till digging time. Meantime, engage all the manure you can in 



