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GARDEN YARD *** 



ized gardening. Before tillage was known the 

 returns from the sort of cultivation in use were 

 very scanty, and this book had never been written 

 had TulFs discovery never been made. So 

 you may be able to do the world a great favor 

 if you cultivate intelligently, not fearing to 

 experiment or to make known the results of 

 your experiments. It may be reserved for you, 

 in your little garden patch, to discover some new 

 truth that will prove a blessing to the whole 

 world, for no science today offers so wide a 

 field for discovery as the science of Agriculture, 

 nor so sure a return for labor expended. 



There is a story that illustrates the value of 

 tillage. A man lay dying and as his four sons 

 gathered about his bed he whispered feebly, 

 "My sons, there is a great treasure hidden in 

 the garden." Scarcely had they laid the body 

 of their father away, when the sons went to 

 the garden and began digging it up. They dug 

 every inch carefully, and found nothing for 

 their pains. Then the eldest son, being of a 

 practical turn of mind, suggested to his brothers 

 that they plant the garden and thus secure 

 some return for their labor. This they did, 

 and when harvest-time came the returns were 

 so wonderfully increased that they said, " Now 

 we know what our father meant. Let us seek 



