Show more brain power on the tile farm fa about the best uso use a farmer can make of himself is to devote the present long winter evenings to an increase of his mental activity farms differ in their ness mainly according to the amount of intelligence that is brought to their heir t cultivation brain power may may be increased by a thorough knowledge bowl edge of the present condition of the farm and its worth as a machine machino for making money what crops have paid and what have been raised and sold at loss or what per percent cent has basit it paid on the capital ca ital invested in in tho the case of ohp the gain what secured it wag was it the manure applied orho frequent tillage or the extra amount of ofrain rain fall ducase in case of loss was attlio it tho want of fertilizers was the c crop ro choked bp weed sor wax was the seeds see poor po orand and the crop damaged by late late planting this accounting for or failures is as jig bragging over big crops without making any record odthe of the process of obtaining them brain power may be increased by planning improvements there may be several acres of peat swamps or bog bo 9 meadow producing only brush and bog hay hardly wort worth cuttina cut cutting tint there is a good outlet and it can be drained three feet or more deep cipher out tho the cost of drains drain age and of making it produce three tons of clover or timothy to the acre would not the sight of the waving heads of the grass be more pleasing than the cat tails flags and skunk cabbages that now waste their sweetness upon the desert air there there may be an acre of swale with hardpan hard bard pan over which ferns w weeds eeds and aquatic grasses ran riot during the whole summer Is it not time the bottom was knocked out of it by tiles laid three or four feet in the groundland ground and the superfluous water compelled to 9 1 C r an be e made the best grass land on ho fa farm rm why not make it so nd handle the dollars that come rom maximum crops brain power can be increased by reading 9 and digesting the instruct instructive iye contents content of agricultural r i c papers american agriculturist 9 1 il W for february |