CHAPTER II. 



FIRST GROWERS. 



DiPFicnLTiES OP Cultivation — Failubes, and their Causes— 

 The Fruits op Expeeienob — ^Average Yields of early 

 Chops. 



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 quittisg 

 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 caUing whicliwillbe discouraging ; and bar 



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