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Show CONSERVING THE FERTILITY. The soil being so important a factor in human existence and human happiness, there is required no apology to be offered for a consideration con-sideration of its forced, functions and character; but rather, if apology apol-ogy be needed at all, it is for the fact that the western farmer, as a rule, appears wholly indifferent- as to the conservation of its forces and fertility. It is not so much that we do not know what is required re-quired in giving the soil proper and rational treatment, but from force of habit and long usage, wo are wholly indifferent, many of us, in protecting from damage or loss the great source of our living. |
