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Show Not by Wheat Alone. President McLouth. of the Dakota Agricultural college, came out lately in a very plain spoken way a;-;insttho idea that wheat growing, wlnuever may be its present attractions, can ever be a permanently per-manently successful system of fanning. He says: No trade or business can thrive which does not furnish employment more than one-quarter of the working year. The 6hoemaker of Lynn or the weaver of Manchester who is reduced to "half time" is in a precarious condition. What ther could we expect of a Dakota wheat farmer who, with his teams, and his tools, and his lands, is reduced to less than "half time?" Thera is a law here as inflexible in-flexible as gravita ;ion. There may be rare exceptions, bni they are accidental and temporary, and only goeo pirve.tlie rule. Your farm.vg-Tirust be such thatT whenTXSWUmot plow or sow or culti Vafe or harvest you can be employed with your stock. When your grain, cr your roots, or your hay, or your fruit cannot grow, your cows, your sheep and your swine shall still grow and yield their increase,- This is the philosophy f thrift |