Show barnyard manure Is best plant food says keffer no other source 0 plant food Is quite as satisfactory no as barnyard manure in the maintenance of soil ter fertility that Is why some form fonn of ant anal husbandry should find a place in every farm plan states director charles A keffer hefter of tile the agricultural extension service university of ten bessee tile the fertility of the lend land can le be kept up and increased by the th us of commercial fertilizers and preen green manure crops ilme ame I and legumes nod and nold phosphate mark the cropping route to successful soil eoll improvement most farmers practice a more or less diversified agriculture anil ani on most farms crop rotation of some sort Is used it may be only that of following corn with small grain or cotton or even letting a held field lie idle a year rear to plow under the weed growth for the following crops and there tire not a few farmers who la ingine that merely to grow cow peas cutting them close for hay greatly benefits the soil that 11 la a mighty poor way of maintaining soil fertility crop rotation of any sort Is hotter better than continuous cropping to one kind 0 of f plant but to be in the highest de it grce beneficial corn and cotton and tobacco and truck crops should niter note nate with some legume prefer ahl atil clover or alfalfa for hay and pasture end and then plowed into the land thu aliu we have a cultivated crop rotating with a sod crop and the use of live lire st stock oe k I 1 in n the enrin scheme |