Show A PROFIT IN FARMING in many cases it can be realized only as one stud es the need of soils if a man Is not making a profit out of any crop he should at once abandon it unless indeed he has found out how to do better in the future than in the past with that particular crop but a man will not abandon an un profitable crop unless he finds out that it is unprofitable this point of ascertaining the profits Is one that has been widely neglected by tors of the soil with the results that some pieces of land have year after year been worked and yet have in no case paid a profit this working of unprofitable land is along the same line as the keeping of cows that are every year eating up their own value while in southern illinois last sum mer says a writer in the farmers review he passed by field after field of grain where there would not be enough of a harvest to pay for the seed plus the harvesting expenses to say nothing of the other labor and ex pense involved last year was not a bad year and it is safe to assume that those fields were in the habit of bear ing the kind of crops noticed it is certain that the cultivators of dhosi fields 1 ad never seriously ed the question of profit and loss such fields should be laid aside til their owner can work out some scheme of making them profitable frequently this will involve study and the of expert knowledge OB soils |