| Show practices that add to productivity of farm differences in earnings of 0 more than per farm have been revealed in farm record studies in the state of illinois III during the past five years practices which help give the higher incomes with little or no cash outlay involve the use of high yielding seeds tested for or germination preparation of good seedbeds and control of weeds crop diseases and insects growing of higher profit crops and protecting the stands by proper cultivation feeding of balanced rations and controlling of live stock diseases doing farm jobs job at the proper season making careful use of all manure producing according to markets and keeping farm accounts other practices which require time or expense but which helped increase the average income in the illinois survey were of limestone where needed growing of legumes in a good crop rotation use of phosphate and potash where possible proper arrange went ment of field systems and provision ot of good drainage keeping of big high h producing uve live stock which are fitted to the farm farin and development of a large enough business to profitably utilize all labor power and machinery wallaces farmer |
