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Show DIVERSITY IN CROP GROWING Always Better to Have Something Than Nothing Consequently Tendency to Mixed Farming. Specializing is a nice tiling to think about and talk about, but in years when your specialty fails it is a sorrowful sor-rowful thing to contemplate says Twentieth Century Farming. Some farmers pin all their faith to wheat growing and corn growing, and both these crops have been known to be total failures practically in every agricultural ag-ricultural section of this country", but very seldom, if ever, have both of these crops failed the same year. This may be said to illustrate the need of diversity in crop growing. It is always better to have something than nothing; consequently the tendency ten-dency to mixed husbandry. It is generally conceded that the farmer who raises tome of everything every-thing each year is on the safe side ot weather influences. Besides the assurance of a living from the mixed husbandry, there is some enjoyment in diversity, which the one-crop, or specialty-crop farmer cannot enjoy. The farmer who keens a variety of animals on his farm always seems to 3e a more cheerful, light-hearted, lappy person. There is enjoyment n diversity; a diversity of interest uid sympathy seems to lighten the :&re8 of busy people. |