Just as complete failure may come from want of adaptation to the existing conditions as from any other cause. A multitude of things need consideration in determining what shall be our line of work. Among them are climatic conditions • kind of soil, lay of the land, soil and atmospheric drainage, nearness to market, ability to get help, manure, etc. A farmer far back from the railway may grow and evaporate raspberries, and successfully compete with one close to market, because the product when ready for market is valuable in proportion to its bulk, while in the production of heavy, cheap, or perishable products he is at a great disadvantage. There is a wonderful difference between going ten or fifteen miles to market or railway station with a load, say one and a half tons of potatoes worth $25, or the same weight of evaporated raspberries worth $600. Considering it worth $3 to make such a trip, we have twelve per cent. of the market value of the first product taken up for the cost of moving it from the farm, while in the latter case it is but one-half of one per cent.

In marketing $1,000 worth of the two, this difference would amount to the considerable item, $115. To carry soft perishable fruits this distance would be almost sure to work serious injury unless the roads were exceptionally good, which is not likely to be the case in such situations.

* Dr. Muller neglects to give any directions concerning the subsequent treatment of the fertilized flower. - Translator.

Many men are located near a small railway station, with excellent facilities for shipping, who cannot command sufficient help to grow concentrated crops, requiring a great amount of labor. It by no means follows that because someone he knows is making money growing strawberries, onions, or celery, he can do the same. Instead of fretting because he cannot grow acres of these, or trying to do so against such obstacles, let him devote himself to larger fruits and those things requiring more land and less labor, for in the production of these he is more favored than growers located on high-priced land near markets. Neither should he fight against the character and ability of his soil. The attempt to grow celery for market on dry upland would very likely prove as profitless as undertaking to win a trotting race with an English draft horse. If the home market is good, grow what it demands. Do not try to educate it to take something better which it does not want; such philanthropic efforts are little appreciated, and the result is not unlikely to be a depleted pocket-book. If there is no home market look well to the shipping facilities, and grow such products and varieties as will bear handling well, and meet the demands of the distant market.

If there are certain things you must grow, and no others, go to a place where conditions are right; but better adapt the crops to the environments as they are.

There is no reason to fear an industry because others in the community are engaged in the same thing. The chances may be much better from the very fact. If a community gets a reputation for growing any product especially well, this fact is likely to attract buyers to the locality. There may be sharp competition between them, and much better markets and prices secured than for an isolated crop in some section where such is seldom or little grown. Moreover, the fact many are engaged in its culture is evidence that the locality is suited to its production. - Fred W. Card.