Show possibilities OR OF OUR SOIL W want vant lo jo say to the farmers of this community that no feat i ure of present day education is for good to this opre p potent country than that now being accomplished complis shed hed by the various agricultural schools and experimental stations and farms twenty years ago the book farmer fanner was looked upon as a visionary by a large per cent of our farming population and is even yet so regarded by some though happily their number is small now the marfilio man who intelligently studies his soil with a view to determining its needs is coming to the front as an authority on matters agricultural and the reason this is so is because his theories have brought forth fruit in fact nothing is more certain than that this country is woefully behind in farming efficiency for I 1 years our farming experts have been pointing out to us the fact that our lands are not producing a half not even evera a third of the crops that bountiful nature intended they should yield one has only to cite the case of germany to see the full force of this statement germany is not as large as the jbv state of texas yet germany german y today is supplying her civil population and her vast armies armes I 1 almost entirely from the products dofher own S soil oil but germany and other old word countries have hare for ifor years practiced intensive farming a system that is only just beginning I 1 to in this country instead of being merey an experiment peri ment intensive farming should be the rule nothing more fully demonstrates the truth of this statement than a glance at the results obtained by the many corn clubs of the country from all directions come reports front from these organizations where the enormous yield to fa bushels and more per acre has been attained not only this but the reports coming from all sections of the country are proof that a almost any of our soil is susceptible to just such improvement improvement then there is another important feature to these big corn yields it has been shown that they can be produced prodoc d at a sub profit over and above the cost of preparing the land for their production careful records have been kept of all expenditures tures and in almost every instance the proceeds have much more than paid the cost of bringing tho the soil to its pc p present c sent state of fertility if these results can be obtained from an acre or two or three why not from ten or fifty or a N hundred acres if they can be bc obtained from a patch why not from a field why not from all f ields fields the deplorable truth is that too many of our farmers are necessity farmers they ask themselves how much do I 1 need and then proceed to satisfy is f y that need and no i irple they should rather ask how muc much can I 1 get and then get all they can it has been estimated that america could feed the world if all her soil were made to produce to its full capacity what that capacity is we are only just beginning to discover |