(continued from page 10.) 
i>tf. And that every one in all the country 
might know where to com 3 for plants they 
engra ved w ith their own hands and .tools 
a big on a stick of maple 
and printed it with red ink across the bills, 
and in putting them up at each road cor¬ 
ner, forks or crossing, they placed them so 
the arrow pointed always in the direction 
k> take to get to the cabbage .plant farm, 
and told the number of miles to it. When¬ 
ever any one started out for plants, there 
were the guide boards at every road-turn 
pointing out the way. It was a success as 
an advertising return and did not need to 
oe repeated; for every man, woman and 
child, for miles in every direction, knew 
after that, where the cabbage plants were. 
The 100,000 were sold, and the boys pock¬ 
eted that year more than $200, and bought 
the buggy. Then farmers and others began 
'-O be jealous of the boys’ success. Some 
would gaze at the ground where 500 plants 
' had been taken from and say that was a 
‘mighty small piece of ground to get a 
dollar’s worth from in so short a time.” 
Some would question, peek around, exam¬ 
ine the soil and try their best to learn the 
( ‘secret” of how to raise such plants, and 
how to save them from the flea. Some 
would offer quite large sums of money for 
the u secret.” Some would think they had 
discovered it, and go home and sow seed 
on the ground as the boys did, only to make 
total failure. About that time the mag¬ 
gots got into the roots of the plants in some 
of the beds, arid the boys studied carefully 
into that. It bothered them worse than 
did the flea, but they at length found how 
to prevent even that pest, and also how to 
avoid toe club root. They extended their 
ht-di and the business, learning more and 
more about fighting the flea and the mag¬ 
got, and raising better plants each year, 
until their plants covered one acre of 
ground, and they sold 400,000 plants in a 
year, to customers who came to the beds 
affcei them. They bought the best seeds of 
the be3t seedsmen, paying more than doub¬ 
le the amount per pound, for which poor 
"seed might have been bought. Still they 
were not quite satisfied with the seed, and 
tried to raise it themselves. Failing to 
raise seed that suited them, one ot P the 
brothers went across the continent in 1872, 
(continued to page 11.) 
from the rough box on legs, fastened to the 
old smoke-house, ichere the first cabbage 
plants ivere raised. In building up the seed 
business, the plant trade has been the main 
reliance for profit, and is still a very im¬ 
portant source of revenue. Of course they 
value very highly the secrets they have 
learned by so many year’s experience in 
fighting cabbage fleas, maggots and weeds; 
also avoiding club root and all the evils 
awaiting cabbage plants. They by no means 
intend to give over to others our local trade, 
or our express trade along the line of the 
D. L. & W. R. R. and its branches; but 
outside of that, the express charges are so 
high on plants, that they could be more 
profitably grown and furnished by persons 
nearer the customers. And they want some 
person in each township, wherever there 
are farmers arid gardeners, to learn the 
trade, and start a pleasant and profitable 
business themselves. 
The foregoing part of this little story 
from real life was printed in our Annual 
feeed Catalogue, but was cut short at this 
point for wanr, of room. A careful consid¬ 
eration of the interests of those who do go 
into the busine.NS of plant growing shows 
us that it is not best for them that°we °dve 
away our secrets freely to every applicant. 
heietoie, simply to keep the masses from 
applying out of sheer curiosity, and give 
those w ho are so situated as to be beuefitted 
by a full rehearsal of our experience a chance 
to follow up the subject, we asked those 
most interested to send a stamp for the 
‘continuation.” This was not required for 
the sake^ ol the t alue of the stamps receiv¬ 
ed but simply to keep back a flood of postal 
cards fiom thousands who would apply out 
of curiosity if we promised another chapter 
tree. If you undertake to grow plants you 
do not want us to send our secrets and in¬ 
structions freely to all your neighbors. So 
to protect those who make the undertaking 
we must send these out under certain re¬ 
strictions. Therefore, for the benefit of oth¬ 
ers as tv ell as ourselves we call attention to, 
OUR OFFER. 
To the first person from each town, (out¬ 
side of the above mentioned territory reserv¬ 
ed to ourselves,) who applies for the chance 
according to instructions given below, we 
will make our agent for that town, and will 
furnish him with private printed instruc¬ 
tions how to raise plants, giving without 
reserve all the Secrets of Success, as learn- 
