CHAPTER XIII. 



TILLAGE TOOLS. 



The best investment for farming is a well select- 

 ed assortment of tillage implements. Even serious 

 minded persons sometimes try to keep pace with 

 more thrifty neighbors without sufficient field tools. 

 For a horticulturist to rely solely upon a plow and 

 harrow will handicap him as greatly in his work 

 as a surgeon with only a knife and needle, his effi- 

 ciency being lessened as much as a carpenter's with 

 simply a plane and saw. Such farmer, surgeon and 

 carpenter might accomplish material results, but 

 competitors using better implements would outclass 

 their work. This is so self-evident that it almost 

 requires explanation for the statement; and yet 

 there is such need for stimulation among the rank 

 and file of the profession, in the matter of equip- 

 ment to meet the constantly changing difficulties 

 of everyday life, that conditions justify its constant 

 encouragement. He who accomplishes two or three 

 times the work of his neighbor each day, through 

 better preparation, is the one always showing results 

 at the end of the season, his fields being properly 

 tilled, while those of others languish and become 

 impoverished from want of attention. Success gives 

 stimulus for further labor, and a momentum of en- 

 thusiasm is acquired which carries one over the 



