Show possibilities OF OUR HUH SOIL we want to say nay to this farmers of this community that no feature of present day education is more potent to for r good to this country than that being accomplished by the various agricultural schools and tat tal stations sla tiona and farms twenty years BRO ago the book far farmer an a looked upon a a visionary via by a large lare per cent oi our farming population and to ia even yet e 10 regarded by borne a though happily their bubmer is small now the man who intelligently studies his hig boil with a via view to deter mining its needs la is coming corning conningto to the fiant as an a authority on matters matter agricultural and the reason this Is 13 so ao is because his theories theonea h have ve brought forth fruit in tact fact nothing is more certain than that tb this is country is woefully behind in farming efficiency for years our farming experts have been ox out to us ua the fact that our lands land are not producing a half not net even on one third of the crops that bountiful nature intended they should yield one has only to cite the ease case of germany to we see the full force forca of this thin statement germany I 1 11 not as large as aa the state of texas yet germany today is supplying her civil population and her vast armies 1 almost I entirely from the products of her own soil but germany and other old world countries have for years practiced intensive tansye in farming a system ay item that i is only just at beginning to proved in this country instead of being merely an mpr exper meet intensive farming farmin ff should be b the rule nothing more fully ih demonstrates mon strates the truth of this atta ment than a glance at the results obtained by the many orn born clubs of the country from all directions mine come reports from rom the these organizations where the enormous yield of 2 00 bushels and more per acre bu ban been attained not only this but the reports coming from all section of the country are proof that almost any of our soil is 13 susceptible to just such improvement then there is ia another important feature to these big biff corn yields it has been shown that they can bo be produced at a substantial profit over v and above the cost ot of preparing the land for their production careful records have been kept of all expenditures tures and in almost every in stance the proceeds have much more than paid daid the cost coat of bringing the soil to 0 its present state of fertility lit y if th results can lie be obtained from an acre or two or three why not from ten or fifty or a hundred acres 1 l if they can be obtained from a patch why not from a field why not net from all fields the deplorable truth is that t too many of our farmers faro iera are necessity Dece alty farmers they ask aak them Belvea now how much do I 1 need and then theft proceed to satisfy that need and no BO more mom they should rather sak how much can I 1 get end and then get oil all they can n it has ban been estimated that amerl ca could feed the world it if all her 81 soil I 1 were made ads to produce to its lt full capacity what that capacity is we are re on ly just beginning to discover |