Show TUCK TRUCK AR FARMING WITH DAIRY difficult to conceive of more pro type of than Judi clotia allend ins of two hy I 1 IV 1 M t KELLY the tr truck ul c f farmer fa mi i e r who Is farming without manure maintains tho the supply of nitrogen in his bis soil boll by tho the use of legumes and buys a fertilizer rich in phosphoric acid and potash in this way ho he secures a better balanced fertilizer than the dal dairyman ryman who uses manure rich in nitrogen and deficient in tho the mineral elements on clover sod that Is already rich in nitrogen now as nitrogen la Is the most expensive element of fertility we can readily see BOO how much more profitable it would bo for the dairy farmer to lengthen his rotation ono one year and grow some highly organized market crop that would sell tor for more than enough to pay for the purchased grain foods required to feed the dalry dairy cows in this way he would be making better use of tho the surplus of nitrogen and the purchase of a small amount of mineral fertilizers would enable him to greatly increase tho the yield afeld of every crop grown in the rotation that Is followed in growing food for his bis cattle I 1 believe that we should try and incorporate some of the methods of soil handling practised practiced by the bruckn brucki er and market crop grower into the manago management ment of our dairy business it if we succeed in deriving from it tho the largest lamest and most certain profits ili it Is IB difficult to conceive of a more profitable type of farming than a judicious blending of dairy farming and market crop growing but in order to successfully comi combine tine these two types of agriculture we must abandon old and unprofitable methods of dairying and get right down to study of 0 the principles of soil boll fertility |