Excerpt from Gardening for the South: Or How to Grow Vegetables and Fruits
No one profession can stand alone without the support and help of other allied callings. The man who says that he can successfully conduct a market garden, or a farm, without the assistance of scientific thought and investigation is not well informed as to how much he is really dependent on what science has done, and is doing, for his profession. If he says that he has no patience with "book farming," and attempts to conduct his business with methods and implements in use fifty years ago, and declines to read and keep up with the progress of the times, he will soon find to his sorrow that his neighbors who do read and profit by what intelligent investigation is bringing to light, are far outstripping him in the improvement of their gardens and in the profits they are reaping by placing on the markets early vegetables and fruits.
This is the age of the printing press and thousands of thoughtful, earnest investigators are sending out by its means vast stores of valuable, practical information to him who will read and profit thereby. Practical men and women must read and learn what the rest of the world is doing if they expect to keep up with the progress of events.
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