CHAPTER XXVI. 
WATCHING AND SPRAYING. 
OW suppose you have prepared your soil 
properly, and planted your seed care- 
fully; that your transplanting has been 
done, and your crops are growing; do you think 
your work is done, and you have only to wait 
for sun and rain to do the rest? If that is your 
idea, you are not cut out for a farmer. Get 
out of the business as soon as you can. There 
are no “soft snaps’ in farming or gardening, 
on either a large or a small scale. But the man 
in love with his job, no matter what it is, is 
not looking for soft snaps, nor does he find his 
work hard. There is a reward in tilling the 
soil and in watching “ the green things growing,” 
as Riley has it, that is not excelled by the re- 
wards of any other calling. 
It is absolutely necessary that you should 
watch your growing crops, for only in that way 
can you keep in touch with their needs. The 
parent who neglects to watch his children and 
to look out for their physical needs, generally 
has doctors’ bills and anxiety. A little watch- 
fulness would have revealed the first stages of 
decay in the teeth; the early signs of adenoid 
growths; the symptoms of eye-strain, or the 
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