| Show facts for poor farmers mr john joan johnson in a letter to the tle secretary of the new york A agricultural siciely says those farmers who have most difficult difficulty to make ends meet always plow mos ms and le keep P most stuck now these theme men take me true plan to always keep krep themselves poor because their crops and stock are always poor and b bring little it is good profit to laise taise three hu hundred red bu bubels hels of wheat from ten acres but when it takes thirty acres to raise that amount it is raised at a a loss so it is wi h cattle and sheep you will see the thi king farmers maeng four year old steers wo worth th from 60 to 80 each and hla hig neighbors at the same aa age e not worth over 25 to aw 40 11 his advice to tb the latter is ig I 1 if his land is exhausted he be should plow no more than he can thoroughly manure seed with clover and grass and let it rest and that field will riot not ony pay well weli for tillage but it will furnish manure if rightly mai managed aged to make another field of the same size rich also ani aid then keep it rich do not run it with grain until again exhausted or the latter end of the land will be worse than the first |
