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Show ALMOST CRIMINAL WASTE. Tlmt is the waste of fertility. The farmer who will so -manage his farm that it is steadily decreasing in productive pro-ductive power is a sinner acrainst the . bounty of the Creator and the wc'l-bcincr wc'l-bcincr of society. It amounts almost to a crime against future generations. genera-tions. Prof. Shaler of Harvard University Uni-versity saysu "Of all the sinful wast-crc wast-crc of mnn'i inheritance on earth( and all are in this regard sinners, the very worst arc the people of America," Ameri-ca," Hoard's Dairyman has put ths question in another form when it has repeatedly said: "That from the Atlantic At-lantic coast to the Rocky Mountain the American farmer has b'azed a parthway of destruction to fertility and forests"." Every indivdual fanner should lake this lesson to hitnsclfl. The fifty thousand farmers who read Hoard's Dfciryman should at once institute measures of reform. To the extent of their number thev are responsible to the whole for the truth of this indictment. Every sinelc farmer h.ia a chance to stem this tide of destruction des-truction so far as he is concerned. Let him set at work at once to stud. this question of fertility. Certain'y he has not kow'edge enough now, for fully 99 out of every 100 arc sending their farms back not forward in the scale of fertility. That shows of itself it-self that the 99 have not the knowledge knowl-edge they should have. The lum dredth man docs better because he knows better. We must have better knowledge concerning the soil. Then we must be willing to cnjj a part of our income in bringing ui the farm. We must 'buy phosphats-, ground skinning stone and potash, We must stop skinning the farm for the last cent we can get in product. If we farm) it for an increase in fer-tility, fer-tility, it will not be long before we wi'l have an increased revenue. But our present way of thinking and doing do-ing is sure to result in a constantly decreasing revenue. What makes ail food products so high? Largely because be-cause of the lessened -product per acre. That is a factor tlwt is working all the. time. New' ground with all its virgin fertility is not broken fasl enough to make up for the lessened production of the old soil. .And the population is increasing tremendously The farmers who have brains to sec these things arc waking up and it is time they did.Hoard's Dairyman. |