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Show SOIL FERTILITY. Barnyard Manure a Source of Wealth. Prof. Stewart. That there arc many leaks in .the conduct of a farm is as true as it is of business. These leaks arc not always al-ways the waste of the principle article in which we arc dealing, but in the bi-products bi-products that may be manufactured from the waste. Many farmers do not attach sufficient suf-ficient importance to the barnyard mukhes and, what is seemingly a waste and a nuisance to them, is when properly handled by others, a source of income and cover the difference of a positive loss on a farm to one of profit and an old age of comfort and luxury. Joe Wing, who is well known to every render of Breeders' Gazette, well illustrates this in the following article recently appearing in that paper: pa-per: "Several years ago it was my privilege privi-lege to go across the water. I gucsc I was always a pessimist. I remember remem-ber when I was a boy. I was born in Ohio, and I can remember when a farmer far-mer got eleven cents for his hogs, which he had fed on his farm, and sold his steers at $90 to $120 a head, and once when I was a little boy, I was sent with some of them to a neighboring neighbor-ing farmer and when I got them there, the old man gave me a dollar, I tell you T was proud. When wheat got clown to $1.25 the farmers said 'Times arc getting poor now.' They kept on growing poorer and poorer and the farmer began to average only o bushels to the acre and then fourteen. four-teen. Then I bought a field next to ours that I had been wanting for a long time; it had got down to where I could handle it. I have that field now. But the average yield grew smaller, prices lower and the paint wearing off the houses and the mortgage mort-gage on the farm grew greater rather than smaller, and I remember riding along in the train and seeing the old houses growing shabbier and the old farmers getting white headed and I said to myself: 'Agriculture is doomed here; the richer west is getting get-ting richer and the poor farmers here arc getting poorer and there is nothing noth-ing left for them at all.' Soon, however, how-ever, times began to pick up in Ohio and they began to pick up here and today times arc much better than they were then. "But still it seemed to mc that the soil was impoverished and then I began be-gan to think of it and it struck mc that this was new soil; it could not be worn out; it had been in use less than 500 years much less in most places while in Europe the farmers have been farming the same soil for centuries and arc still farming it, and just about then I had an opportunity to go over to the old world, and I started in England and then went down to the Isle of Jersey and then over into France and the one thing I wanted to see was how they could have lived on the land so long and could still continue to live on it, and it was the most marvelous thing I ever saw. "In France I saw the finest farms T have ever seen; the next were in Scotland, and I don't know whether Scotland was not better, even on the whole, than France. But in France, where I stopped, there was an old Frenchman who offered to take mc 5omc miles out of Paris to sec n fine farm which he knew, having come from that neighborhood. So one beautiful morning wc started out by train. Now the old Frenchman could not talk any English and I knew about three words of French, but wc talked all the way. When wc saw anything that did not please us, wc frowned and shook our heads, and when something particularly attractive came under our notice wc smiled and shrugged our shoulders, and we understood each other. When wc got there wc went directly out into the fields and I can assure you I have never seen a finer sight than that field presented that morning, |