THE 38 
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 Tull’s 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 
