Foreword 



little work, for it does not require a great deal 

 of labor to make a garden and keep it clean. If 

 it is planned well and given regular attentio'i, 

 such as is given other portions of the farm, 

 those who have pronounced gardening ''a snare 

 and a delusion'' will be obliged to admit that 

 they were mistaken. Raise the garden, there- 

 fore, to the dignity to which it is justly entitled, 

 and care for it as it ought to be cared for, and 

 you will soon discover wherein you made your 

 mistake when you declared that you hadn't 

 any time to fool away on garden trash." 



Men are so accustomed to the use of machin- 

 ery in ordinary farm-work that it is not to be 

 wondered at that they do not take kindly to 

 the manual labor involved in weeding the gar- 

 den after the old order of things. But there is 

 little necessity for this kind of work nowadays. 

 We have so many implements designed ex- 

 pressly for garden use — implements that do 

 their work rapidly and perfectly — that hand- 

 work is almost done away with. When this 

 fact is realized fully — and that will be after 

 one season's trial of our modem garden machin- 

 ery — not one man in ten will look upon work 

 in the garden with disfavor. He will realize 



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