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Show I - ' A CHANGE OF CROPS. ' o- J "' . The Factory and Farm Bays a 'ro , tatfon in crops is demonstrated as he-, he-, ing not only best, but demanded; ihe continual growing and gathering from the same field a harvest of the same v or kinred product, will in due time deprive the soil in that field of the v ability to produce, that especial article as it has taken from the soil all that is necessary for the successful production of that crop, and either fertilizer must : be applied, or the field will become "wholly worthless, save for some other and entirely different kind of product. ! When crops fail of themselves, the! failure can, as a rule, be traced to the negelect of men. and not the defect of nature or the mistake of the Creator. ..The soil is provided in a general state ,of richness; if continual demands are Vjmade updn it to produce, and no re-, re-, , Vturn offered in way of remedies for its , ' t-degenerating tendency, the outcome 'i vwiil he a thin crop from an. exhausted |