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Show FARM NOTES. Cheap seed is often the most expensive. ex-pensive. Always plant the best seed you can get for every crop. Soils destitute of humus and nitrogen nitro-gen are impotent to produce clover. The deepest mudhole and steepest hill measure the real distance to market. Turn up a little of the subsoil. It will increase the water-holding capacity ca-pacity of the ground. Many of the irregularities in the health of the farm stock can be traced to Injudicious feeding. On every farm, where the soil and climatic conditions are favorable, corn should be grown ror fodder purposes. pur-poses. Let the neighbors do what they will, keep matches away from your straw pile. Roughage is too scarce this season to use for a bonfire. Humus was intended by nature to create and conserve the fertility of the soil for the production of the necessities ne-cessities to conserve the huma race. In feeding values silage compares favorably with other crops, although this will vary with' the kind of stock and grain ration wilh which It is used. The best results are usually obtained ob-tained from the work that is systematized system-atized and most carefully planned. This is not always the hardest work on the farm. If care is taken to keep the surface sur-face of the silage level, two and one-half one-half inches removed daily will be sufficient to keep the silage from decaying. de-caying. Mauy farmers now pasture their corn fields, which is the most economical eco-nomical method of harvesting the crop, and under favorable conditions, the most profitable. |