Norwich bulletin., 1915-01-02

on our table. gave away some to lack 1 tng neighbofH, ,--a1ld fed the rest to the
 cents a, dozen. I think that was the l most sensible way to use 1t.
 # one likes to work a garden and
 has discovered in himself by past tests | the ability to raise a little better on a
 little earlier truck than his neignpors;
 and if there are enough of those neignbors to take what he raises; and
 if they are willing to pay fair price and pay cash; and if he has a few acres of good garden soil or of ground | that can cheap1y be made into such,-- why, then, I should say that there is l rather more money in raising garden truck than in raising general field crops.
 But there's no use Of a man under taking it unless he feels genuine call that way. In the course of my life I've had two farm laborerS at work on my gardens. They were both good men on ;a big farm. They were faithful; they were sober; they were fully up to the average in Intelligence But all their experience had been on big field work, and l had to watch 'en as cat watches 8 mouse almost ev- cry minute to sec that they didn't slur over something. Not that they meant to slight any needed work, but they had their eyes and hands trained to see and do only the big things.
 Now gardening is a constant suc- cession of little things, and attention to what seem to some trif1ing details
 Also, should hesitate to advise any inexperienced hand to go into it, no matter how much he liked it, unless he felt some assurance of a good handy direct market, where he could sell his produce direct to his custom CTS and thus nut into his own pocket all that was fairly coming to him. Of course, there are gardeners who raise immense quantities of truck and sell 1t by the carload to wholesalers. But in most cases, I suspect you'll find that these are old hands. who have
 rown into it gradually and have de- reloped at once a science of economy in production and a trick of shrewd- ness in seilin~ which beginners are not likely to attain.
 Above all l should not think it safe to undertake to sell truck except for cash. The little c11ar~e book which it is so easy to carry and jot down sales Tn IS the truckers sure passport to the poorl1ouse.
 Really, the least important item is the soil. Naturally some soils a.e lighter and warmer and heartier and more retentive of fertility than others But while such soils undeniabiy save trouble and cost, they arc not abso- lulS4S eSSellldI. The right man will make good garden out of a propos;- ton some others wouldn't think fit for a turnip patch.
 l insist upon it that the cultivator who rtglses spinach and cauIiflower and string beans is just as truly en- titled to the honorable designation of
 farmer as the man who raises oats anu corn and hay. Brt you don't have 10 hand-hoe and weed your oats or nay. You do your spinach and cauli- noWer. I've kKown men who took real pleasure in doin~ |iist that thing. I've knoWn others who fairly revolted at lt--hared it as poison.
 think AIbert's idea of heaven is one Dig onion bed which he can tend foreFer said a lady to me once. of hel' gardener Albert was tIas,t rare sort or chap who had actually rather sh1ne up his pet onion bed, clean out the weeds. mellow the dirt about fI7e all-ganle. U @ l, personally, do not associate on- lon Needing with heavenly joys. But frankly I'd rather weed onions for +ar'
 no hours than ride a joiting moving machine with a jerking sickIe-bar. be- hlnd pair of sweating horses for the same length of time.
 1T you. on the other hand. prefer +he TSlnl ana the machine for your work shou4d advise you most ernnl1a4i ca'+y not to atte117nt truck gardening.
 THE E-AR1TJEE1