THE SEED-GROWER. 
INTRODUCTORY. 
Suggestions to Beginners.—The beginner who is 
without previous experience is advised in growing 
seed for commercial purposes to proceed slowly and 
not attempt too much at the outset. It is better to feel 
your way, with your first year’s operations on a limited 
scale, rather in the nature of an experiment to see what 
can be done with profit and with success. 
Endeavor to make your first customers in nearby 
towns and cities; strive, by growing only the highest 
standard seeds, to create a reputation for the quality of 
what you grow. This latter, naturally, is a matter that 
must be left to the results of one or two season’s trial 
of your products by your customers. Once having 
given satisfaction, the way should be clear thereafter; 
one satisfied customer is usually the means of securing 
others. 
Because your acquaintance with seedsmen in the 
country at large is limited to the few (enterprising 
though they be) who make a practice of advertising 
extensively in magazines, do not imagine that these few 
comprise the seed trade in its full strength and entirety. 
The fact of the matter is, there are many hundreds 
of other large firms dealing in seeds exclusively, located 
in every town and city of importance in the Union, 
who sell locally, in a quieter sort of way, large quanti- 
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