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Show HOED CROP PROFITABLE ; Will Accomplish All That Bare Fallow ! Possibly Can and Still Show Considerable Con-siderable More Profit. tlty V. M. KfXMCr.) The more I study the value of In tense culture and thorough cultivation given some hoed crop the more 1 have come to appreciate Ita value in our crop rotations. No practical farmer, who has given some hoed crop thor otigh cultivation during the whole of a growing season has failed to note the good effects upon the succeeding crops In the rotation that they are practicing. prac-ticing. Years ago the old practice of bare summer fallowing found favor In many farming sections, but during recent re-cent years the decreased price of farm products and the decreased cost of lalxir has made Its use actually prohibitive, pro-hibitive, besides the practical farmers have discovered that a hoed crop will accomplish all that a bare fallow pi is slbly can and still pay better than any other crop that Is raised In the rotation. |