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Show HOW TO MAKE OLD FARM PAY Stop Starving and Co to Feedutg All Cultivated Land It Amount la Only Flv Ac-. It Is a commentary on American 1 agriculture that In certain sections there are farms of 100 or more acre than ran be bought for leu than tha first coat of the bulldlnga, and In , aom rosea for leaa than th policy Insurance In-surance companies have placed on aald buildings. ' '. Ths old farm doesn't pay. Ita forests have been destroyed. Its, 1. soil baa been tilled, and tilled till H J would bear tillage no longer and na- tore went out ou one of her Inevitable 1 atrlkea. V. Can the old farm be made to pay? V ; It certainly can not, by the old f.,' methods. t The old owner may remain, but th il old farming must atop. ' Here aro aome auggeatlnna. Put fid acres of the 100 to growing treea. 3 , These may be forest trees or In P part an apple orchard. V If the farm ha any smooth level r land, do tbe cultivation on that. Htop starving and go to feeding ftll I cultivated land If the amount Is nq I more than five acre. 1 i For aom crops, as potatoes, on Im. I poverlahed soil, success Is being had, j by the Judicious use of commercial J fertlllrora I t |