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Show OUR FARMERS BEHIND TIMES DUT we do not begin to get full value 1 even for the comparatively small amount of the land cultivated. It has been said that we could riyo t'-n times as much as we do at present; In fact, we could ral-c one 'mini red times as much. It may see-in shocking, but our farmers ns a rule are fir behind tlx; farm, is of the continent in their methods. Our farmer needs to be educated; he rhouid be taught to apply to his work tlie scientific Knowledge, shaped now for r radical uses, that will raise our average I pro-lucl per acre to something like that of otirwirle-. whleh lack many of our advantages advan-tages of siril ;md tllmate. Win r Orcat Krlloln. In what her own people peo-ple n-gniV as an arce of agricultural decline, can pri duce over thirty-two bushels of wheat r cr a re. nod othor grains in proportion, vhlle th. T'nl'ed States calls It a big crop when Its avenir;.- raises to fourteen, it argues mere want of Intelligence on the part of this country, a-failure to grasp the simple reasons rea-sons for coming hardship and Its obvious and natural remedy. |