Be Prepared. 
Have all your seeds in readiness months 
before wishing to sow them. There are 
commercial seedsmen who have large farms, 
and every facility for growing seeds of all 
kinds, for keeping them pure, and for test¬ 
ing their vitality before they are put upon 
the market. They not only advertise these 
seeds largely in the Agricultural papers, 
but they know that they have them. If a 
man buys these seeds, and gives them fair 
treatment they will come up, and bear fruit 
after their kind. If there is failure, the 
cultivator will know' that the trouble is not 
in the seed grower, but in the seed sow r er, 
or in the soil. There will be no chance to 
case conscience by blaming the seed grower. 
It is a happy day when a man recognizes 
his own lousy chickens, as they come home 
to roost. It is a good plan to clear out all 
the old seeds, of uncertain date from the 
seed basket, or bag, and start early in the 
season w T ith a new and genuine stock. We 
raise some seeds with a pedigree, having 
followed their history for years. Others 
come from plants that have given maximum 
crops for one or two years. Every year 
we get seeds and plants from commercial 
seedsmen, who have a reputation to lose. 
It is money well invested. Try it and see. 
—Wm. Clift in American Agriculturist 
for January. 
As the bee gathers honey even from poisonous 
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comfort from the most adverse circumstances. 
Fear is an unpleaant incentive to useful occupa¬ 
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