January : Second Week 



AN EQUIPMENT OF TOOLS FOR THIS SUMMER'S 

 SUCCESS 



There is a saying that it's a poor workman who finds 

 fault with his tools. Nowadays it's a poor gardener, if 

 his time is worth anything, who is content with any but 

 the best of tools. That does not necessarily mean the most 

 expensive ones. All garden tools are cheap enough, but a 

 poor tool, no matter what its price, is expensive in two ways 

 — it is less efl&cient, and it gives out quickly, to say nothing 

 of the fact that a poorly tempered tool makes an ill-tempered 

 gardener. 



A sufficient equipment of garden tools is a factor in 

 garden success. The man who is growing for his own 

 table will frequently get along year after year, skimping on 

 a few dollars' worth of tools that he knows he needs. He 

 argues with himself that he isn't getting any money out 

 of his garden, so he must put no more into it than he ab- 

 solutely has to. He fails to realize that in all probabihty 

 he is getting two or three times as much profit out of his 

 crops as the commercial market gardener gets. His whole 

 output is taken, if his garden is rightly managed, by the 

 best market so far discovered — the home kitchen. It is 

 worth at least as much as would be paid for stale stuflt at 

 the store. 



Another thing that keeps many people from buying 

 needed small tools is that they do not calculate the actual 

 cost. They decide that it will not pay to invest a dollar in 

 a spading fork, or seven and a half dollars in a sprayer, or 

 ten to fourteen dollars in a combination wheel hoe and 

 seed drill. But if tools are well cared for they should last 

 on an average at least ten years, which makes an annual 



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