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Show I (HKMmMMMnMMMnMM IH1I Igji IMHMWWMB I Jct-making I P FARM Bl Hj f Qif"t" """"' '' i'ii i o Q0O NO ono oced expect to argue farm-era farm-era out of grnln raising, although thnt is not tho most profitable U agriculture. It 13 possible, how ever to show owners of land that It is just nB easy to grow thirty bushels of jB wheat, 100 bushels 'of corn or 800 bush els of potatoes on an acre as It Is to M grow lean and miserablo crops. It is M simply n question of management and t not specially of hard work. M Until a crop of wheat amounts to flf- M teen bushels an acre there Is no profit 9 whatever at average prices. Above flf- teen bushels it is practically all profit I Here is the incentive to raise rensona- bly large crops. The corn average la only twenty-eight bushels an acre, whereas It ought to be 100. The potato average is 100 bushels, but it ought to bo 200. There must be the right Bucccssion of H crops in the fields, the so called rota B tlon. There must be the money mata-B mata-B ing proportion between grass land add B crop land and live stock in proportion fl to total land. B While these facts are vital to all pto- B Queers, it Beems to bare become the B fluty of the small farmer to blare the B tray for a more intensive and scientific B Kind of agriculture. B The use of a large amount of raaaure B dons not necessarily mean bigger yielii B and net profits. Something more thaa B manuring 1b required the soil must be B worked better and weeds destroyed. B There smust. be. right proportion and m quantity of plant foods. It will not do jB to guess that they are in the soil, for it 9 must be proved. If the test shows the j9 quantity lacking and proportion wrong B the farmer cannot make money. Non- B porous subsoil under heavy, close soil B is bad. as is porous stibsoll under sand. |