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How
One
Hundred
Bushels of Corn Per Acre
On
Soils
Worn
WILLIAM
C.
OF
'"
CORN
SECOND
/REVISED,
Grow
to
SMITH
INDIANA
KING
IS
"
EDITION
ENLARGED
AND
ILLUSTRATED
riiBRARY
NEW
YORK
^TANICAL
^ GARDEN
CINCINNATI
STEWART
"
KIDD
1912
COMPANY
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-y
lit
Copyright
1910
C.
William
Copyright
Stewart
"
Smith
1912
Kidd
Company
of the past
farmer
*HE
of
scientific
the
storehouses
with
the
of
scientific
the
soil
knowledge
that
plants
in
with
which
the
are
that
Nature
artificial
behooves
do
agency
us
to
rich
Nature's
of
its
of
wand
the
in
ments
ele-
their
can
soils.
working
work
devised
the
Garden
farmer
the
worn-out
silent
study
found
hundredfold.
a
sick,
He
the
it with
grows
his
was
student
despoiled
became
produce
MERE
plants
it
"
it
"
a
became
and
touched
He
fertility.
neglect
agriculture.
depleted
it
fertility.
farmer
modern
duce
pro-
touched
He
and
greed
its wasted
with
^HE
his
of
that
elements
riches.
of
wand
strangled
the
in
study
found
He
agriculture.
rich
soil
the
scorned
better
by
Nature's
way
These
forces
than
of
of
any
thus
man;
store
re-
it
doing
things.
''Accuse
part.
Do
not
thou
Nature^
but
thine''
5
hath
she
"
done
Milton.
her
"
PROEM
TO
IN
little
a
Reserve,
Indiana,
of
His
day.
six
six
by
carved,
first
vision
had
pioneer,
the
smaller
the
settled
in
The
the
days
so
To
the
strength,
the
memory
soil, this
the
subdued
children,
children
land
that
from
the
the
and
loves
the
as
and
the
as
wilderness
soil
or
born.
7
the
years
else
who
that
go
this
and
the
bandman.
hus-
in
land
gave
gave
the
made
pioneer.
loved
pioneer
and
Nature
it that
the
of
beautiful
father,
pioneer
by
and
sleeps beside
He
of
gantic
gi-
with
forests
the
fruits
endurance
treat
in
companionship
the
fertilitythat
decrease
not
author
been
in
and
dedicated;
farm
so
and
The
is
rich
toil
of
book
in
sleeps
sturdy
a
underbrush,
now.
him
and
interspersed
the
sleeping
the
yard
father,
subduing
with
light
abounding
and
was
gave
He
door
His
trees,
timber
is
who
toil.
his
of
by
ne'er
father
wife
oak
blossom
to
pioneer
faithful
and
the
through
the
across
County,
saw
was
wilderness
this
alone,
land
world
clearin'."
of
muscle
the
making
"
poplar
varieties
of
strength
out
into
walnut,
the
first
in
farm,
Howard
author
the
windows
glass
which
of
of
pioneer's
a
on
out
was
public highway
EDITION
farmhouse
frame
Indian
the
FIRST
the
fathers
it to
their
it, may
the
fertility may
crease
in-
by.
book
would
have
soil
the
Loving
when
he
book
will
spoiler,
in
TO
PROEM
8
it
sees
only
the
author
as
he
will
his
does,
the
feel
soil
conscience
that
is
indignation
the
by
despoiled
awaken
EDITION
FIRST
his
robber.
of
efforts
aroused
the
have
If
this
soil
de-
not
vain.
William
Delphi,
January,
Indiana,
1910.
C.
Smith.
been
PROEM
edition
first
THE
having
the
the
the
from
the
of
key
his
important
He,
problem
gift
of
No
the
people.
nation
can
AVhen
to
on
a
its
If
soil
paying
would
the
head
of
nations,
our
soils
and
prevent,
is the
may
have
a
and
the
most
people.
greater
honor
soil
restoration
a
the
fertile
loses
and
to
in
office
high
any
and
and
touched
greatest
great
death
merits
its
soil.
power
is written
decay
vitals.
very
we
It
is
worn
then
the
without
power
becomes
crops,
it
with
a
tions
commenda-
must
the
before
been
before
this
honored
become
nation's
produce
be
he
now
in
part
a
to
that
that
flattering
many
regarding
solution
perceives
than
movement,
feels
has
so
restoration,
for
important
so
people
It
is ventured.
edition
first
received
he
soil
worn
therefore,
have
and
that
book,
the
exhausted.
unexpected,
an
edition
has
author
press
of
note
that
is
book
such
second
a
years
public,
helps
a
two
this
of
with
met
reception,
In
EDITION
SECOND
TO
have
of
hope
play
an
nation
our
the
we
by
to
must
maintain
every
possible
author
important
that
part
9
its
continue
the
this
in
so
at
fertility
their
means,
book
place
and
solving
its
the
of
haustion.
ex-
sons
les-
soil
problem,
of
that
fertility,
Delphi,
January,
our
that
Indiana,
191
soils
this
2.
EDITION
SECOND
TO
PROEM
10
will
nation
be
may
kept
to
the
highest
continue
great.
William
C.
Smith.
state
INTRODUCTION
FIRST
TO
EDITION
farms
ABANDONED
of
of
fertility
for
settlement,
the
problem,
The
when
held
Renovation
to
freshness
and
Too
make
vigor
that
their
fathers
entered
upon
rich
all
in
subdued
were
bountiful
crops
supplied
found
in
with
first
gathered
were
his
the
sons
and
class
nitrogen,
from
sons*
land
soils.
Year
these
sons
they
as
ness
wilder-
the
it mean?
have
to
it to
restore
potash
after
II
the
to
virgin
into
the
and
year
cultivation;
soil
other
these
well
was
elements
bumper
pioneer
farm
forest,
forests
soil; the
brought
lands,
continued
the
good
because
Their
out.
wear
with
the
upon
gone
never
make
produced
humus,
of
it.
that
were
of
centuries.
again,
covered
the
produce
from
for
over
will
land
elements
and
again
farmers
land
solution
Renovation
"
the
does
renew
American
many
principle
to
opened
land
the
them
what
"
soil
the
"
is
subjection
Soil
the
decreasing
people?
our
will
they
of
menace
new
nearer
subdued
in
them
of
means
that
so
of
day
question
forefathers
our
that
It
"
Soils
production
population,
acres
feed
we
the
to
present-day
each
us
shall
how
the
fewer
and
brings
answer
Worn-out
did
soils
our
decreasing
Increasing
country.
our
is
lands
farm
our
and
crops
died,
lands
and
in
TO
INTRODUCTION
12
the
farmed
were
It
did
not
they
that
Millions
seventy-five
have
cannot
Is
quick
wait
there
?
one
fifty
a
The
years
time
very
from
produced
corn
the
will
acre
per
These
acre.
bankruptcy."
condition,
what
is
and
remedy
remedy
as
when
soils.
to
agricultural
this
that
once
of
bushels
with
it?
and
sure
"
into
that
bushels
twenty
gone
remedy
land
our
hundred
one
confronted
Being
to
of
acres
must
than
manner
yet
haustion,
ex-
they
American
of
sons
of
point
when
come
planted,
acres
sons*
the
different
a
and
of
produce
now
acres
cleared
to
would
in
treated
of
they
as
and
sons
reach
ever
time
millions
to
come
not
the
first
methods
same
the
to
could
lands
and
were
has
possible
rich
farmed
the
pioneer.
seem
or
be
the
by
these
that
with
and
manner
same
EDITION
FIRST
did
England
the
be
must
can
remedy
quick,
to
do
we
for
restore
a
we
our
soils.
The
prove
of
purpose
that
it
is
a
this
sure
book
and
is
quick
to
give
one.
the
remedy
and
to
TABLE
OF
CONTENTS
PAGE
Proem
To
First
Proem
To
Second
Edition
7
Edition
9
Introduction
11
CHAPTER
I.
Soil
19
CHAPTER
II.
Drainage
27
CHAPTER
III.
Matter
Organic
35
IV.
CHAPTER
Soil
Ventilation
45
V.
CHAPTER
Plowing
51
CHAPTER
Soil
VI.
Covering
69
VII.
CHAPTER
How
to
Produce
and
Get
Organic
Matter
the
Soil
75
VIII.
CHAPTER
81
Rye
CHAPTER
IX.
89
Hungarian
X.
CHAPTER
Sand,
Into
or
Hairy
Vetch
95
13
CONTENTS
14
PAGE
CHAPTER
XI.
Alfalfa
113
CHAPTER
Cover
Sweet
123
CHAPTER
Red
129
Author's
Method
of
Restoring
CHAPTER
Worn
of
Culture
159
XVII.
165
CHAPTER
of
Don't
XVIII.
Forgets
CHAPTER
Conclusion
137
XVI.
Corn
Chapter
Soils.
XV.
Corn
CHAPTER
Sweet
andWorn-out
145
CHAPTER
A
XIV.
Corn
King
The
Xni.
Qover
CHAPTER
The
Xn.
175
XIX.
185
UST
OF
ILLUSTRATIONS
PAGE
Frontispiece
Clearin'"
"The
The
Plows
Double
The
A
Fine
A
Young
Vetch
Soil
Bunch
A
Field
Matter
of
Showing
Taken
From
Vetch
Taken
Vetch
in
Taken
Seed,
Magnified
Promising
Corn
A
Promising
Potato
The
Wonder
Ears
Type
Farmer's
of
Best
Its
Roots
74
80
Under
and
Ice
88
Water
Bloom
94
and
Seed
Pods
of
Top
From
102
Sand
High
Ridge.
112
122
128
Fertilized
Field
Boon
Sweet
Is
the
Best
Seed,
Corn
Product
With
White,
County
If
Vetch
With
Fertilized
Field
Which
of
on
Size
Vetch
Good
64
Soil
From
in Winter
Actual
A
Nodules
Nitrogen
Bloom
Seed,
A
50
Tilling Machine
Deep
Frozen
Full
Vetch
Good
Rest
68
Plant
Plants
Ten
44
60
With
Stalks
Corn
Vetch
I
Winter
at
Under
Machine
Tilling
Showing
!
Plowing
For
54
Deep
Stems
Well
18
34
Cultivators
Vetch
"
Belt
Plow
Vetch
of
Timber
Covering
Plant
A
Organic
Disc
Under
Plowing
Matter
and
Spalding
the
in
Organic
of
Crop
Nature's
Builders
Soil
Under
Fine
A
6
Original
Plowing
A
2
Seed
But
Stowell's
136
Vetch
Ear
Not
144
"
Prize
Evergreen
158
Getters.
164
174
184
"
,
15
THE
ORIGINAL
SOIL
BUILDERS
IX
THE
TIMBER
BELT.
CHAPTER
I
SOILS
is
SOIL
earth
defined
that
or
nutriment
adapted
to
soils
Clay
in
stone
placed
Muck
soil
where
is
in
the
by
produced
consists
fine
the
of
erals,
minof
particles
of
washing
decay
down
wearing
aluminous
of
feet.
several
to
containing
by
found,
particularly
the
by
part,
soil
Sandy
is
inches
few
rocks
of
furnishes
them.
a
produced,
were
granite.
as
from
depth
the
which
which
or
nourish
and
support
decomposition
and
plants,
of
stratum
upper
substance
compound
to
varies
Soil
the
being
as
water.
of
large quantities
vegetation.
Clay
made
and
rich
such
We
the
kind
to
of
large
more,
In
wedge
of
life's
that
the
other
that
clay
in
in
clay
or
battles
the
opens
the
knowing
way
ter
mat-
the
condition
of
Any
or
muck,
made
condition.
proper
them,
be
can
soils
have
yet
sandy
produce
or
muck
if
much,
as
of
more
not
soils.
heavy
"
vegetable
its character."
heavy
or
will
treatment
of
that
than
if put
and
improved
vegetation.
"
said
who
plant growth
proper
than
and
clay, sandy
crops
it is true
by
centuries
importance
more
elements
soils
him
soil, whether
While
the
with
is of
produce
for
leaves, weeds
agree
originally
were
addition
the
by
as
soil
soils
sandy
to
19
how
success.
"
is
the
So
it
entering
is
in
the
SOILS
20
of
treatment
is the
in condition
"
The
practiced
of
without
them,
they
soils that
termed
justly
As
been
the
a
of
of
them
of
rotation
; for
crop
Worn-out
soils
restoration
is
It
become
appalling
farmers
many
each
day
lands,
"
Not
Not
the
if he
he
can
and
degree
a
a
ducer
pro-
maintain
will not
alone
tive
decep-
the
of
over
the
their
lands
riot their
hour?
to
country
hangs
over
giving
his
bring
to
as
so
see
them
all mistreated
farm."
abandoned
in
to
seems
how
know
to
from
does
is
ten
seems
get enough
to
problem
that
doom
farmer
his lifetime
vital
treating
does, he
the
extensive, then, has
so
going
the
in ten
or
in
so
nearer
one
one
the
tillagehas
stimulant.
a
being
belt
corn
soils.
sordid
a
soils
rich
the
been
has
rotation
fertility. It is but
soil
or
be
may
crops
soils,although
worn-out
crop
crops.
worn-out
greedy husbandry
our
worn-out
Even
of
curse
or
of
areas
These
land.
our
out
can
maintain
to
paying
soil.
the
producer
theory
paying
long
so
all you
vast
produce
not
worn-out
from
rule
a
will
crops.
soils have
our
anything
exhausted
so
parts of
immune
not
of
return
them
put
farming,
getting
longer produce
no
a
in all
abound
is
the
soil that
Any
of
process
has
fertility,
increase
of
to
growing
States, by which
the
to
in
success
method
spur
United
in the
subjected
been
"
"
how
knowing
of
secret
and
whip
"
soils,the
the
not
be
his
care
to
going
land
for
his
build
the
on
to
land
chance.
a
his
up
soil,
principle that
support
him
during
posterity or
future
generations.
He
his
is like
an
of
ex-governor
declining days
on
the
farm
a
great
which
who
state
before
he
died
spent
was
SOILS
in
the
condition
worst
wondered
People
other
Hnes
upon
which
The
governor
had
been
he
"
it is
farming
it be
to
us
into
go
different
the
have
by
of
soils;
After
we
can
soils of
$3,000
the
be
made
That
this
Three
Potash,
be
can
demonstrated
elements
precious, the
element
It is said
produces
increases
that
"
quality."
of
Island
Holland
sandy
est
rich-
been
per
experiment,
clay
or
soil
acre.
quickly,
the
best
farmed
and
make
to
and
have
we
and
out
the
of
soils
good
the
authority,
nitrogen promotes
fruitfulness
the
some
into the
corn
nitrogen ;
important
soonest
of
Long
actual
done
necessary
and
most
of
for
experiments.
are
to
that
and
of
any
and
done,
phosphorus
most
more
treatment.
by
up
bushels
100
value
say
lands
proper
backed
this line.
necessary
relative
to
cultural
agri-
soil is of
not
of
walks
Our
transformed
by
that
it is
great
our
along
Jersey
sandy
acre
actual
by
according
is the
the
per
yield
New
and
matter
of
the
than
been
statement
to
work
the
of
farm,
generations."
of
soils,further
have
so
noble
a
in
condition.
a
the
many
character,then
thorough study,
make
such
his
restoration.
condition
treatment
proper
worth
made
of
so
soil
discussion
sandy
extreme
in
the
its
the
kinds
allow
into
future
see
business
people in the humbler
doing
that
than
importance
and
are
true
and
should
for
to
interested
schools
If
successful
encouraging
becoming
Hfe
whose
man
neighborhood.
interrogated regarding
financiers, statesmen
life
a
the
in
any
residing,to get
not
am
of
so
was
was
I
replied,
But
why
^i
is
most
last
the
tioned,
men"
most
costly."
It
fertile soils.
growth, phosphorus
early maturity,
and
:
potash
SOILS
22
sandy, clay
Most
and
of
substances
plant
the
from
soil.
ninety
less essential
The
ten
sufficient
600
the
three
only
elements
seven
make
the
but
corn,
of
by
taken
are
than
more
up
other
these
secured
are
The
water.
elementary
ton
a
made
are
seven
no
of
the
corn
and
which
are
generally
crop,
quantities in all soils
from
last
to
make
up
but
in
found
to
500
17,-
years.
The
chief
and
matter
lack
of
soils
worn-out
is the
Organic
of
residue
is
matter
Therefore
that
passed
vegetable
it exists
Soils
and
a
soil
large portion
known
the
soils
air
renders
their
as
of
the
in
the
their
the
the
work
root
etc.
after
matter
is humus.
decay
it
It
where
substance, and
soil black.
entire
from
humus
decayed vegetation
of
largest supply
of those
of
supply
in their progress
their
procured
homes
of
nitrogen
secured
through
organic
like
matter,
straw,
dark-colored
a
as
originallyprocured
Virgin
make
is left of
matter.
animal
or
manure,
its process
in abundance
organic matter,
from
which
through
in the
appears
organic
humus,
decayed organic
leaves, roots, sticks, grasses,
has
is
nitrogen.
Humus
or
humus,
are
certain
contains
mentioned
elements
cent,
ash
pot-
plant growth."
to
seven
per
of
cent,
per
three
The
of ten
corn
air and
from
plant
the
of
ton
a
elements, of which
food
corn
consist
wheat
and
oats
corn,
they
; that
; that
in
wholly lacking
are
"
that
says
food
plant
sufficient
nitrogen.
and
matter
writer
One
but
phosphorus,
organic
soils contain
heavy
or
formation.
of
nitrogen
soil bacteria
nodules
nitrogen-gatheringplants
of
those
or
the
who
plants
legumes,
SOILS
who
and
and
drawing
There
of them
into
Go
the
being
middle
the
west
and
"
to-day, but they
the
trees, the
trunks
tree
large
of these
of
been
storing up
soil.
of
Is it any
of
has
of
them
were
to
them
quantitiesof
soils,it
our
these
soils
the
will
of
between
see
of
the
the
existing
and
decayed
leaves, and
decaying
leaves.
A
undergrowth
the
nitrogen
seems
cleared
our
lands
again within
of
rich
first cleared
again, our
it took
and
the
original
until
dition
ad-
elements
we
get
can
lands, lacking in these
worthless
a
without
soil, and
the
as
centuries
short
humus
years
to
and
matter
impossible
an
elements
when
these
reproduce
more
matter
lands
thus
years,
rich?
of
that
of
precious
that
so
soil
nitrogen gathering,
hundreds
nitrogen, organic
nitrogen, organic
put there
forests
you
much
of
from
consider
we
and
for
on
then
elements, will become
When
such
heavy coating
storehouse
anything
into
some
and
cultivation
back
food.
covered
once
legume family, or
trees
wonder
exhausted
as
with
a
of the
the virgin forest
Continued
such
trees, and
going
vast
a
surplus
soil.
the
decaying
has
and
the
forests, are
gatherers
This
of
number
plant
air,
forests.
"
covered
limbs
and
are
large
not
ground
the
forest
there
are
the
store
for
the
nitrogen-gathering plants,some
of
virgin
from
nitrogen
available
of
trees
the
they need,
it becomes
thousands
are
food
than
more
soil where
the
in
for their
draw
23
task
time
to
the
that
by.
go
put
large
humus
into
get back
into
quantities of
took
so
long
to
in the first instance.
Barnyard
will put
manure
soil quicker than
any
other
these
known
elements
agency,
back
but
into
this
the
rem-
SOILS
24
impracticable
is
edy
quantitiesof
sufficient
that
reason
with
of
This
to
keep
and
as
the
so
rule, add
a
It is said
an
of
acre
per
for
year
value
the
thus
and
well
We
A
hearing
are
a
villagein
and
in the
air
corn
over
acre
per
is of
no
the
makes
air,
its system
it into
of
vigor
organic
Ohio.
Ten
clover
the
million
matter
as
produced
occupy
dressed
them,
with
crops.
supplied
with
which
extend
from
the
through
most
liberal
It
is
crops
are
part
unfit
; fine
now
organic
that
matter
:
too
to
poor
for cultivation.
old
their
grow
They
barns
These
lands
produce
manure
soils
into
and
houses
stable
are
river
Pennsylvania
if these
and
They
Hudson
unoccupied.
quantities of
said
"
says
acres,
good
first noticed.
soils
state
named
soils,"so
these
fertilizers,
are
without
Volusia
where
York
New
across
"
of the
much
unproductive,
westward
good
and
erals,
min-
it from
that
humus
need
of
soil.
assimilate
can
cient
suffi-
will not,
nitrogen
into
element
the
speaking of
writer
worn
once
soil
in
nitrogen.
as
from
it is drawn
in the
soils
the
needs
in the
of
bushels
but
years,
the
fertilizers
nitrogen
eral
min-
by coming
supply
food
and
the
furnish
necessary
75
grow
secure
But
growth.
to
that
is continued
of commercial
soil unless
plant
the
is enough
600,000
the
to
that
so
ground
humus,
the
to
the
for
work
reason
moisture
up
there
that
further
supply of plant
the
to
the
contain
dissolution
adding
obtained.
dissolved
sufficiently
and
plant growth.
be
do
not
not
the
soil is
water
amounts
do
because
large scale,
a
cannot
will
for
in the
matter
on
manure
they
and
organic matter,
in contact
use
fertilizers
Commercial
chief
to
are
drained,
acidity corrected
II
CHAPTER
DRAINAGE
soil
NO
both
"
to
as
well
thorough
without
tilth
good
most
grow
them
hot
on
of
out
are
wet
In
soils.
desert
they
die, because
"
with
crops
their
environment.
to
but
crops,
grow
moisture
un-does.
is
beings
have
must
you
overdone,
as
There
be
and
compact
it is to
soils.
new
easily percolate
are
plant
roots.
is
Drainage
this
incapable
more
whether
of
one
needful
hard,
are
absolutely
They
soil
drainage
water
free
plant
dies.
is
the
cold,
tance
impor-
drainage.
to
and
porous
are
than
soils
worn-out
will
water
them.
through
soils
Worn-out
oif
soil
Hence
water.
soils
New
the
when
importance
more
the
and
human
as
shut
you
roots,
thorough
and
breathe
to
and
plant
with
saturated
is of
roots
ventilation
soil
no
drainage,
Drainage
the
reaching
can
plant
ventilation
soil
off
from
of
for
necessary
shut
;
oxygen
matter
to
grow
will
they
Moisture
The
try
to
attempt
instances
proper
It
in
put
drainage.
As
feet
be
can
the
and
compact
of
most
affording
non-porous.
ventilation
methods
effective
to
of
ting
get-
ventilation.
in
is
on
soils
worn-out
the
27
land
or
not,
the
put
better;
into
no
them
DRAINAGE
28
ditching
much
as
getting too
the
give
proper
soil ventilation
soils
heavy
Most
in
is too
them
be
to
them
in
room
There
is
temperature
to
can.
you
of
danger
no
drains.
many
Ditches
as
conserve
are
compact
conducive
to
for
roots
cold, the
and
ture
tempera-
soil ventilation
the
and
plant
soil,promote
soil moisture.
and
low,
the
their
perform
to
is
There
plant growth.
adequate
in-
too
no
proper
functions.
them
seeding
giving
It takes
All
more
labor
kinds
of
soils
rather
the
that
so
than
Drainage
places
heavy
The
soils
will
of
of
also
greatest
advantage
is the
putting
deep
a
as
well
as
thoroughly
where
they
will
snows
down
to
to
quickly
drains
the
large
a
of
extent
standing
of
water
the
eliminate
thus
in the
soured,
spots.
be
to
of
the
obtained
soil
in
by plenty
condition
that
pulverization,
and
porosity, deepness
droughts
the
and
in such
pores
washing.
prevent
soils found
drainage
In
soil
farms
our
and
the
up
surface, preventing
results
non-drained
by drainage.
opens
them,
for
season
cold, compact,
rains
and
season.
benefited
are
from
water
the
over
disastrous
low
till
to
drying out,
proper
growing
shorter
percolate through
and
enter
the
figurativelyspeaking,
Drainage,
the
a
in
slow
are
delayed beyond
is
planting, thus
soils.
drained
improperly
Lands
as
will
experience
of
prevent
floods.
ditched
are
safe
soil,plant
from
the
roots
onsets
at
once
of
strike
summer
droughts.
The
of
of
years
has
been
that
well-drained
DRAINAGE
soils
better
produce
undrained
soils
be
the
light of
impress
drain
upon
this
if
they
we
that
shown
I cannot
would
build
so
constructed
them
worn
ditched.
strongly
too
first
must
we
that
first well
are
the
than
seasons
also
experience,
readers
my
soils
our
until
dry
or
has
experience
reclaimed
cannot
In
in wet
crops
soils,and
29
thoroughly
to
up
fertile
a
stage.
drains
All
both
ends,
as
air
the
the
should
air thus
drain
a
will
into
soil, made
porous
of
source
close
row
surface
of
the
of
screened
in
valuable
Drains
tile, and
need
drain
in
other,
dry
weather
the
thus
and
and
is
into
out
construction,
and
ney;
chim-
a
the
out
is thrown
nishes
fur-
roots.
should
properly
foreign
in
terminate
tile
fence, the
the
fixed
undulating
the
govern
is
the
brought
screened
some
to
up
to
the
prevent
from
substances
the
ing
enter-
ordinarily
exceed
to
be
a
so
of
the
of
it does
the
not
less
not
is the
ditch
drain
soil and
are
than
feet
four
lands
waste
constructing drains,
kept in mind,
of
depth
Where
depth.
a
all times
farm.
of
as
at
open
Such
manner.
same
character
likely to
kept
constructed
be
rule
be
should
on
not
the
be
drains
drains
should
no
In
all
asset
but
there
plant
sticks, or
mouth
most
the
like
act
at
open
drain.
the
and
the
ground
animals, weeds,
The
drain
to
and
which
by
to
end
one
moisture,
moisture
fence
into
go
be
to
as
will
constructed
so
passing through
condensed
The
be
be
can
the
too
six-inch
in
depth,
given,
outlet
deeply
must
tiled
water.
idea
of
matter
soil ventilation
in all
cases
as
must
whether
DRAINAGE
30
a
drain
will
water
carry
not;
or
ventilation, provided both
affords
it is useful
if it
only
ends
of
drain
are
of
Purdue
the
open.
Soils and
The
Crops department
station, in their experiments of tiled and
Experiment
lands, show
corn
acre
per
untiled
the
an
or
of
bushels
76.1
61.8
bushels
per
acre
14.3
bushels
in
favor
of
tiled
un-
on
of
tiled land.
is
This
that
a
of
cost
constructed
drain
same
of
six feet in order
of
of
was
the
through
length, with
for
manholes
admission
both
lines
of
This
to
keep
method
surplus of
water
installed
the
farm
the
out
of
to
to
trash
tile
air.
up
fences
author
sists
con-
tile,running
one-half
iron
tops with
the
to
and
ings
openrun
are
outer
the
in
mile
Laterals
line to
ary
boundof
surface
opening
the
animals.
drainage
quickly
inch
ten
brought
or
depth
average
the
by
with
main
the
larger portion
an
nearly
and
and
up
of
farm
water
of
at
tile
cement
outlet.
an
outlet
or
of
close
ground
placed
provided
sides
the
tile
the
paid
author
the
inch
and
and
it will produce.
acre
per
be
soon
which
ten
Farm,"
secure
of
center
from
screened
to
line
and
eight
drainage
main
ing
sell-
corn
drainage
can
crops
dollars
six
inch
ten
of
system
one
yield of
of
for
drainage
good
Vetchfalfa
of
This
of
mile
"
his
on
with
acre
per
volumes
speaks
less than
a
$7.15
bushel.
per
system
a
of
the increased
of
out
At
value
money
experiment
shows
for
a
fiftycents
at
the
and
difference
a
of
yield
average
tiled land
on
land,
This
out
University
pass
construction
away
and
enables
affords
a
a
per-
DRAINAGE
feet
of
which
In
this
and
air
passage
heretofore
has
such
water
of
system
of
system
tile
air
are
readily
31
in
dry
been
shown.
drainage,
cement
more
pass
porous
through
the
weather,
tile
than
them.
other
were
advantages
used
kinds,
cause
be-
and
o
u
"J~l
5
"
"
w
o
CHAPTER
III
ORGANIC
of
is
IT
I
rich
plenty
have
shown
fertility
in
retains
retains
and
There
is
the
into
soil.
It
under
plowed
twentieth
For
of
soil
to
life
germ
their
they
they
As
of
organic
In
get
cannot
and
their
get
three
clay,
much
organic
of
as
matter
weighs
deep
organic
to
years
stage
bacteria.
food
of
These
within
any
in
as
inches
tons
highest
its
soil
the
weight
times
so
matter
make
one-
tons.
2,000
soil, they
the
from
feeding
exist
cannot
first
organic
six
any
found
inches
of
matter.
the
from
matter
it must
always
are
the
in
fertility
soil
erals
min-
lacking
in
matter.
soils
virgin
reach
This
in
its
much
too
twelve
or
in
matter
five
100
abundance
greater
soil, and
two
the
be
land
take
would
matter.
were
long.
as
getting
of
acre
every
part
a
contain
they
An
organic
as
and
times
of
danger
soils
water
long,
as
it five
no
tons.
2,000
in
it twice
in
that
soil,
the
cleared
organic
much
as
in
matter
rich
that
production
crop
newly
are
say
times
three
absorbs
sand
they
"
to
organic
of
why
authorities
Good
and
importance
great
be
there
MATTER
germ
the
they
highest
life
and
found
are
of
stage
bacteria
35
in
where
abundance,
development.
in
the
soil
play
an
impor-
MATTER
ORGANIC
36
part in preparing the
tant
condition
the
are
for
food.
plant
said
been
the
skeleton
makes
the
The
for
will
good stand,
clover
only
the
matter
on
is
and
the
of
the
It
them.
the
but
the
and
that
this
regarded
break
growing
in
the
soil
poorer
is
the
fall
will
he
season
he
If the
spring.
will
but
for
up
from
remove
also
clover
the
seed
the
crop,
again,
corn
and
process.
same
builds
very
crop
In
a
and
again; perhaps
he
season
good
this
under
in the
wheat
first clover
on
wheat
rake
break,
next
plant
year
again.
The
in
put
next
rotation, and
are
matter
out
one
will
corn
corn.
following spring
continue
and
is
States
nothing
will
he
it in
put
in the
is
you,
farmed
and
farmer
season
in the
ground
sow
field not
next
wheat
sow
will
crop
to
matter
United
originally in
its flesh
average
and
stalk
the
This
aids
organic
in the
matter
of
body
The
corn.
every
and
its offensive
best
the
the
has
years
organic
instance, the
field in
a
soil of
remains.
For
break
oratory,
lab-
substances
organic
that
in vogue
hundred
one
all the
skeleton
he
of
without
soil, and
the
farming
stripped the
burn
the
the
one
land
that
of
of
past
most
has
are
Nature's
flesh.
system
the
soils
proper
agriculture.
It has
but
cleanse
They
and
in
distribute
and
accumulations
successful
workers
little constant
compound
that
needed
in the
plant growth.
for
They
putting it
soil,or
farming.
up
our
system
every
becoming
They
Yet
farms.
our
farms
That
year.
less
and
tell
us
I
have
the
less, and
it
say
is
to
grown
organic
why?
MATTER
ORGANIC
Because
soil to
the
The
and
sufficient
not
keep
the
up
stalks
corn
Both
but
nothing
stubble
all these
In
added
than
years,
what
for
corn
and
stalks
about
the
wheat
only,
burned
?
air
from
If
this
from
stalks
burning
and
potash
which
was
these
acres
destruction
the
pictured
removed
humus
was
planted
each
its
each
with
stalks, raked
of
in
soil
upon
soil
this
are
reflected
of
cases
into
in
to
thoughtless
obtained
considered.
April
an
of
ing,
even-
famous
the
from
the
the
these
be
and
saw
in
light upon
the
forever
their
almost
my
humus,
stalks, but
lost
losing
fires
from
windrows,
needed
fast
fertility,I
be
to
into
up
abounding
that
ashes
reflection
smoke,
most
resolves
horizon
soil, that
in
up
and
oats
corn,
the
small
the
And
year?
organic parts.
of
visible
seventy
even
stubbles
value
with
nitrogen
in the
rotated
is too
entire
acres
of
and
receding twilight
going
I looked
of
been
burned
of
the
then
the
corn
of
leaving
was
supply
and
cent,
per
99
seen
of
thousands
matter
destroyed by burning
Valley aglow
Wabash
As
the
vegetation
in
signific
in-
was
insignificant.
are
have
and
fields
many
true,
burning
I have
of
to
be
Standing
removed
matter
90
roots
removed,
fifteen, twenty
ten,
and
Vegetable
the
that
fields
the
about
to
year
to
burned
cases
its
were
organic
soil, and
added
exhausted.
gradually being
What
clover
more
the
with
roots, which
and
years
to
of
of
majority
stubble
crops
being
supply.
in the
wheat
is
matter
necessary
were
; the
destroyed
organic
37
to
fertility.
criminal
imagination
sky, pictures of
ORGANIC
38
"
MATTER
"
Agricultural Bankruptcy
and
farmer
in the
day
on
what
could
large
for
burning
a
grown
on
the
When
I
of
In
the
winter
tion
destruc-
and
spring,
Think
farmer
had
full of
the
turned
Think
that
how
in this
reveled
and
that
think
by
taken
meant
the
But
to
fall,
first and
his
second
of
the
of
that
the
crop
organic
that
matter,
nitrogen
and
the
would
so
humus,
plow.
of
organic
it into
from
soil and
that
to
crop
little rootlets
make
of
of
season
the
farm.
it uncut
leaving
had
of
in
the
to
leaching
farmer
left uncut.
match
menace
and
soil elements,
heavy paying
Again,
a
a
clover
destruction
The
:
is
the
have
mass
drawing
elements
a
the
touched
and
season
in
Later
dry Big English
clover
splendid
precious
under
too
was
left unlearned.
was
it would
what
I wondered
had
soil restoration.
in
lesson
lesson
best
this
clouds
great
area.
(?)
wrath
my
this
north
conscienceless
through
ground
of
farmer
of
directing some
buildings.
or
previous
this
American
important
soil
American
conflagration
farmer
field
in
said
growing
the
cover
of
learned
the
The
a
the
ground
fertility,I
hands
that
forty-acre
to
been
American
awful
while
large
a
stalks
corn
learned
match
and
this
the
to
covering
burning.
be
I
day
an
of
the
will the
when,
1909,
noticed
I
flame
and
of
spring
farm,
my
smoke
soil
of
Farms,"
soil wealth?
One
work
oh
realization
a
Abandoned
doom
pictured
When,
:
into
come
of
the
this
I exclaimed
farm,
of
beheld
I
as
"
and
the
the
financial
mixed
matter,
sturdiness
on
corn
corn
of
with
system
growth
that
have
the
those
duces
pro-
farm.
loss to
that
farmer
from
ORGANIC
destruction
the
the
that
of
the
MATTER
clover.
clover
not
less
is worth
hay
than
of
ton
a
forty-acre field,worth
for
acid
and
$17.57
^^^
clover
hay
total
a
of
been
estimated
in
nitrogen
There
manure.
each
on
ton
a
was
of
acre
the
under
$702.80 plowed
manure.
The
farmer's
clover
This
was
have
would
have
worth
would
the
the
time
and
for
him
large
with
the
also
of
growth
stalks
some
in
the
cultivation
jerked
was
the
on
that?
stalks
The
to
of
out
the
that
and
sticking
would
ground by
few
loss
the
Of
the
ground
hill of
but
under,
stalks
kind
course,
cultivator
corn
we
pastured, with
occasional
hills of
of
of
is,
interfere
rankest
chain.
the
burning
This
crops.
were
out
an
to
the
log
the
great
farmer
the
for
not
as
never
crops
a
been
stalks ; that
under
of
of
for
corn
other
plowed
insufficiently
loss
have
made
so
and
plow
left
were
have
fertilitythat
farmer
turned
stalks
corn
it would
a
burning
corn
have
ordinary walking
an
this
under
of
We
field
plow
it would
labor,
extra
for
cultivation
dispute.
field,but
plow
the
course
and
up,
under.
plowed
double-disc
Of
the
returns.
plowed
be
a
nicely.
this
that
clover, is made
cannot
of
that
was
be
not
right kind
plow
excuse
same
they
it could
it under
secured
yielded
The
to
the
have
have
burning
occasionally choked
longer
well
The
turned
for
excuse
that
heavy
dispute.
we
taken
only
so
would
of
it has
For
potash, phosphoric
of
39
and
corn
catching
of
what
is
nothing
if
destroyed by
pared
com-
burning.
An
side
instance
by side, one
is
given
of
whom
of
two
farmers
owning
always gathered
up
his
farms
corn
stalks
burned
and
stalk
or
straw
a
less
corn
the
to
it did
the
pounds
of
nitrogen,
pounds
of
potassium.
stalks
contain
and
to
stalks
of
sold,
be
a
the
stalks
of
bushels
burned
19
grew
of
phorus
phosments
ele-
$11.04.
stalks
in the
not
are
and
these
lost
are
loo
corn
All
of
value
itself
that
but
about
phosphorus
potassium.
corn
as
years.
of
money
well
as
contains
100
bushels
first commenced
nitrogen, 6 pounds
of
have
in
soil if the
the
the
a
fifteen
fifteen
produced
corn
pounds
pounds
elements
corn
of
17
he
fifteen
the
48 pounds
52
in the
if the
farm
which
upon
about
These
latter's
bushels
hundred
The
when
of
After
yielded
than
beginning
allowed
never
his land.
farm
acre
the
other
on
farmer's
it, while
One
burned
be
to
farming
at
The
them.
former
the
years
of
MATTER
ORGANIC
40
the
to
saved
be
can
but
soil
plowed
are
under.
rich
river
land
that
used
of
forty
less than
continued
stalks
The
simply
his
into
matter
must
learn
matter
to
no
by
farmer
American
crop-producing
That
of
soil
of
sixty
is
average
or
now
acre.
could
lands
these
the
the
acres
of
crop
The
acre.
the
to
vast
are
average
and
Iowa
of
under
plowing
have
been
the
corn
them.
on
grown
organic
We
bushels
an
the
to
corn
richness
virgin
The
Indiana,
produce
to
and
Illinois
of
lands
bottom
bushels
more
prairies of
black
the
In
the
soil
lesson
that
lesson
the
only
of
getting
is doomed.
farm
his
or
soil is the
the
the
learn
must
of
restoration
way
to
increase
ganic
or-
its
power.
is
complete
without
it.
That
the
very
It
the
MATTER
ORGANIC
42
is
said
soil
touches
who
and
her
inflicts
withdrawing
the
the
soil
the
wand
alike,
Earth,
Mother
thought,
no
mankind
all
plunders
upon
But
robber.
her
awful
her
transformation
magic
the
dollars
into
farm
one
in
that
people,
punishment
bounty.
robbed.
is
one
of
dirt
True
if
on
the
"
with
in
magic
the
and
of
hands
the
as
some
resenting
that
is
soil
a
has
one
the
the
bears
wand
in
falls
on
a
robber
said
infamy
pain
not
in
heaped
silence
all
alike,
but
by
"-'""
^
^
d
O
IV
CHAPTER
HAVE
I
said
plants
of
something
thrive
cannot
that
VENTILATION
SOIL
-
plant
roots
without
it.
breathe
must
and
that
also
said
plant
will
ventilation
soil
have
I
the
or
die.
soil
If
is
plant
is
injured
Entirely
soil
and
but
It
is
said
because
ventilation
destroys
organic
Sufficient
in
soils,
air
be
must
underlaid
heavy
is
it
said
is
full
to
be
of
are
a
into
short
out
of
the
sandy
while
ventilation,
on
drainage
matter
trates
nias
the
well.
sage
pas-
soil.
and
light
compact
ventilation.
living thing.
45
them."
necessary
soil, and
gravel,
on
organic
poor
destruction
the
and
coarse
strong
soils
their
in
both
with
generally
are
and
Soii
deeply
reach
the
produces
prevents
penetrate
the
Soils
and
under
be
soil.
the
ventilation
soil
must
of
when
soil
the
in
matter
would
from
resulting
is
breathing
cannot
oxygen
plant.
sickly
root
animal
an
as
the
tion
ventila-
some
the
in
lacking
in
placed
have
have
you
free
enough
Insufficient
Air
plant
a
effectively
as
water,
clay
"
water.
no
you
it, the
enter
seeds
If
then
enough,
cannot
from
growth.
no
that
air
if it had
as
oxygen
get
not
drowned
much
as
exclude
you
that
compact
so
But
and
it
porous
is
only
alive
veins,
so
SOIL
46
it
that
the
from
breathe
can
plant
VENTILATION
air
the
needed
gases
by
root.
Tuberculosis
enters
ventilated
insufficiently
our
soil exhaustion
and
the
enters
the
upon
compact,
homes
non-porous
soils.
We
ventilate
must
applicable
as
Soil
soil
the
to
ventilation
into
into
which
of
organic
must
soil may
a
be
properly
to
aid
necessity
a
heavy
vetch,
soil filled with
a
and
drained
need
water
close, compact
a
can
the
of
into
matter
form
that
seems
influence
Soil
and
soil,then
suitable
as
their
we
being
can
see
yet
of
organic
is
not
not
matter
so
of
only
plant roots,
in
they
soil
the
can
that
but
for
perform
decaying organic
plant food.
for
soil
are
conditions
afiFected
of
the
by
vironment
en-
soil will
growth.
essential
the
that
so
nitrogen
in the
man,
modify
bacteria
the
the
established
be
bacteria
well
as
with
bacteria,
changing
a
ventilation
contact
may
of
multitude
work
soil
in
home
proper
vast
It
soil
etc.
that
; hence
for
come
may
oxygen
their
ventilated
of
under
stalks, rye,
corn
fairly well
be
openings
in soil ventilation.
The
that
as
roots
drainage,
to
plowing
neither
possibly breathe,
soil, so
the
such
forgotten
be
not
cannot
Next
the
by
matter,
their
leave
they decay
tain
Cer-
matter.
plant, penetrate
hungarian, clover,
buckwheat,
It
secured
is best
drainage, deep
by
organic
its way.
is
man.
course,
when
finds
air
to
this
live, and
we
secured
alfalfa
soil and
the
ventilation
crops
be
can
plants, like the
deep
it is
as
plowing in, of
tillageand
if
homes
our
need
to
a
ing
good, living,work-
of effective
soil ventila-
VENTILATION
SOIL
tion
these
that
so
bacteria
When
said
it
is
in
for
the
farmer.
and
give
living
its
that
thing
best
condition
that
flourish.
it
condition
a
to
in
put
develop
such
indeed
condition
proper
crops
is
be
may
best
may
soil
that
soil
the
47
can
and
service
truthfully
be
is
only
in
in
growing
the
"
5:^
^ ^
^
O
C
OJ
c"
r:
5C
-
rti
"T-;
O
-^
"5
X
'/i
i;s
CHAPTER
V
PLOWING
THAT
soil
That
of
improved
of
ways
of
cultivators
and
the
is
building
is
stirring
by
and
ignorant
Nature's
soil
of
one
portant
im-
most
apparent
on
study.
is
the
by
in
steps
close
is
plowing
proper
unobserving
in
aiding
Nature
soil
is
It
The
of
roots
nied
de-
only
man.
building.
the
are
truth
a
one
plows
and
trees
plants.
In
the
could
into
see
he
the
would
into
the
size
he
would
and
the
pushing
soil
rootlets
growing
soil
covered
see
the
stirs
this
soil
the
that
the
than
if
one
tation,
vege-
down
in
grow
their
of
way
effectively
more
they
by
up
and
and
out
as
if
year,
forests
and
loosened
and
way
the
the
shooting
beings,
soil
the
see
with
roots
animated
as
of
seasons
action,
and
roots
stirred
by
plow.
the
This
observation
importance
I
claim
of
that
possible
were
their
It
idle.
the
and
spring
of
soil
should
break
fertility would
is
one
of
Nature
winter
be
Nature's
will
of
Nature's
be
stirred
shows
ways
the
stirring.
soil
to
one
not
several
soils
up
If
frequently.
times
a
it
year,
increased.
ways
allow
season.
51
to
soil
be
busy.
to
be
She
is
never
idle, except
in
PLOWING
52
If
Nature
soil
with
occupied
plant food
to
not
plow
or
stir
and
plant
to
some
the
benefits
great
and
tillage is
are
and
less
single
of
to
this
is
in
better
the
plant
a
that
the
roots
time
to
to
in
plow
nine
tillage
the
soil, affords
for
store
their
organic
up
fold.
four-
matter
ventilation,
and
deliver
more
room
functions.
proper
and
structed
con-
a
wrong
way
plow.
The
plowing
or
stirring of
a
soil
nearly
gives
right
has
worn-out
better
and
a
land
Flemish
the
her
soil mixes
crops,
culture,
agri-
frequent pulverization
power
to
of
times
ages
productive
and
"
his
plowed
reclaimed
perform
frequent
state
principle England
ability
growing
"
that
high
dark
the
its
its
times
some
stirringthe
soil
for
believer
upon
minerals
to
There
secure
thing."
farmer
after
strong
and
the
the
and
that
manure,"
same
Roman
three, and
it increase
the
moisture
for
old
agriculture
Plowing
gives
the
And
soil.
the
noted
once
a
made
with
why
removed
is
crop
manure,"
a
cheapest
and
And
an
and
much
as
ganic
eradication, soil stirring,or-
tillage is
one
than
was
the
a
is
your
Then
corn.
grow
after
Keep
fertilizingvalue,
weed
was
crop.
farmer
of
and
best
our
Rome
never
"
that
manure
Old
of
lesson
fertilizingmatter.
It is said
and
to
as
crop
and
It takes
crop.
ground
our
occupy
soil cultivation.
weeds
grow
then
important
an
useful
some
to
grasses
this
successful
in
learned
be
from
crops,
growing
and
weeds
the
soil, and
the
with
occupied
not
starts
cover
to
is
soil
ground,
no
matter
what
o
O
X
^
o
w
o
CJD
o
PLOWING
character, when
its
laws, and
soil
of
dense
thus
turned
until
ventilation
as
And
if the
even
the
subsoil
the
soil will
we
get
time
hold
have
the
the
fulness
use-
but
the
below
it and
importance
of
through
plow
under
earth
kinds
and
right kind
of
and
plow
the
soil
top
moisture
prevent
and
makes.
is convinced
that
plowing
the
at
right
plow.
great evolution
been
has
many
kinds
of
Its
needed.
with
There
together
the
above
water
this shows
and
soil
stratum
compact
a
rising when
All
the
press
off.
in the
sufficientlydry
of
passing
dried
destroyed.
soil be
surface
the
is
roots
soil
The
roots.
shut
the
becomes
over
bricks
completely
plant
wet,
too
will
which
for
home
a
soil presses
plant
or
like unburnt
is
sure.
soil turned
the
Nature's
against
the
through
water
to
becomes
over
and
sun,
plow
impervious
and
crime
a
follows, quick and
the
grains together
is
wet
punishment
passing
The
too
55
in
The
the
breaking plows
writer
disc
plow
has
; we
all
tested
is the
of
best
all.
disc
A
It is the
stalks
plow
will
that
only plow
and
heavy
plow
soil that
will
plow
under
successfullyturn
of
masses
other
no
organic
and
matter
will.
corn
oughly
thor-
incorporate it into the soil.
The
from
furrow
slice
soil
the
plow^ed by
thus
below,
disc
a
plow
preventing
is broken
the
pressing
off
gether
to-
of the soil grains.
Any
other
smooths
the
or
bottom
ventilation
kind
slicks
of
and
the
the
of
a
the
plow
bottom
furrow,
risingof
in
passing through
of
the
which
moisture.
furrow
interferes
the
soil
slice, and
with
soil
PLOWING
56
disc
A
of
matter
surface;
the
to
depth possible to
The
disc
which
the
When
farm,
his
the
furrows
merits
their
and
comments,
employed
days.
after
The
horses
expecting
author
gave
he
disc
plows
in use,
him
then
looked
as
he
walked
though
protest.
The
quitting
time
hitch
of
But
years,
work
horses
in
do
the
was
plow
to
author
and
wanted
to
returned
the
make
in the
following
for
few
plow.
The
directed
it had
been
properly
was
that
that
double
his
just plow.
some
a
two
of
one
field where
a
that
to
to
spring
with
noon
and
horses
author
one
walking
their
farmers'
the
plow
to
at
a
years,
the
several
off, noticing however,
he
two
investigate
to
farmer
his
two
had
on
killers."
several
to
to
tellinghim
all
plows
eight inches,
attention
them
to
standing
also
and
author
his
then
and
adjusted
place :
one
it with
hitch
to
no
negro
came
negro
lighter.
horse
them
use
condemn.
paid
using
"
as
pains
no
to
neighbor
a
it over,
plowing
of
depth
them
to
took
and
any
characteristicallycondemned
continued
merits
soil
sub-
plow
disc
and
only,
organic
the
turns
is
double
use
soil
plow.
it
as
all
to
its draft
average
continued
and
knew
an
farmers
these
soil
horses
farmers
he
though
yet
to
sight, denouncing
at
And
he
three
using
neighboring
them
began
safe
bottom
the
bring
disc
the
will do, and
author
inch
twelve
with
plowed
plow
loosens
not
always
pulverizes the
plow
other
no
it is
so
be
the
completely covering
under, yet does
plowed
be
to
soil from
It stirs and
top.
on
plowed,
depth
the
to
the
throw
not
slice
furrow
the
does
plow
the
The
negro
objection
or
evening just before
conversation
took
PLOWING
58
But
allows
license, which
fetched
consider
why
It must
is
that
and
that
plant food
increase
reduce
quantity
of
shallow
A
organic
of
ought
not
to
A
If
been
of
convince
any
your
soil, below
plants w411
is
not
moisture.
food
first
for
and
for
of
organic
of
study
that
one
the
that
be
given
water,
and
sufficient
a
the
sufficient
root
system
bed
seed
for
needs
the
meet
good
crop
be.
hold
corn
to
crops.
will
may
to
so
matter
bring
shallow
a
essential
must
for
season
heat,
heat,
development.
root
to
is
bed
place therein,
possibly
or
for
growing
soils
the
dry
cannot
A
the
for
in
corn
the
does
ing.
grow-
of
roots
plant.
plowed
room
to
seed
a
take
secured
be
requirements
space
will
room
moisture, air
larger
any
bed
such
moisture, air and
how
plants.
the
meet
most
far
favorable
evaporation,
will
seed
matter,
growing
of
matter
no
and
capacity
effects
moisture
maturity,
to
be
secured
be
to
most
filled with
well
storage
the
bed
prepared
be
bed
the
object
action
sufficient
be
deep seed
a
seed
a
germ
may
must
the
that
sufficient
and
it is well
plow,
to
development,
hold
chemical
so
conveyed
verse
all.
at
obtain
that
so
plow
to
will
There
depth
conceded
plant growth
And
the
we
be
plowing
one
be
to
poetic
in
thought
measure
sought
of
right
?
determining
In
to
one
truth
the
although
the
exercising
Richard
Poor
was
plant
the
to
close, compact,
penetrate
The
roots
moisture.
depth
it, nor
deeper
and
the
or
the
which
it has
hardpan,
will
seed
greater the
they
bed
always
the
ficient
suf-
secure
the
supply
roots
of
more
plant
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PLOWING
One
California, after
mistake
So
got under
in
the
Lima
concluded
studying
his
soil
scratch
the
surface
merely
to
doing.
were
and
farmer
enterprising
he
his
put
the
hard
soil
this
depth he
Bean
underlying
it
of
was
a
farmers
most
as
down
plows
belt
twelve
inches
usual
plowed
the
surface.
By plowing
for
their
could
roots
to
have
not
doubled
A
demonstration
inches
without
the
And
to
The
North
led
with
the
that
plenty
building
plowed
plowed
foundation
fine
Gulf
and
years
and
of
Romans
from
it
sandy
Coastal
West
to
the
with
was
deep,
for
soil
deep plowing and
supplemented
For
of
within
conclusion
method
of
yield
experiments
made
drainage
true
the
England's
extent
the
1906,
acre.
per
South,
to
the
and
the
farmers
Carolina
great
in
to
deep
of
up
ganic
or-
and
fertility.
Orangeburg
Atlantic
twelve
to
an
average
inches.
Flemish
was
bushels
seventy
have
of
depth
a
fertilizers,increased
times
depth of nine
in
to
Delta, Louisiana,
throughout
soil
ancient
stone
He
seed
of
is the
matter,
The
bed.
plowing
plowing supplemented
In
shallow
a
demonstrations
years,
maintaining
they
Yazoo
numerous
few
This
the
use
deep plowing
last
of
in
depth
crop.
fourteen
from
corn
his
double
get nourishment.
in
gotten
almost
fifteen
and
grow
his beans
gave
the
the
use
custom
chief
ture
agricul-
pulverization.
loams
Central
of
the
improved
an
Plains
danger
and
found
from
of
are
freed
to
a
ing
by deeper plow-
organic
to
the
Southeastern
Texas,
erosion
within
plow
matter.
these
sandy
PLOWING
6j2
loams
not
three
over
in
by plowing
to
that
crop
yields have
been
third
of
the
sandy loam,
the
been'
inches
nine
One
depth from
the
When
this
land
he
"
The
it to
his
soil, even
not
be
surface
by the
"
kill
the
ordered
"
the
disc
which
acre,
rye
1910
were
he
in
sandy
packed
so
and
roots
moisture
concluded
plows
tract
be
to
under
that
of
of
sandy
his
heavy
was
this
from
the
double
than
more
before
land
on
the
he
and
organic
late
as
of
cided
de-
deeply
as
corn
seventy-five bushels
made
long
land
of
crop
field
to
so
1910
plowing
to
set
a
up
spring
planted
was
thrown
not
soil
depth
plowed
was
then
the
that
corn
to
that
crop
author
the
it.
purchased
of
the
plant
was
poorest
gathered
been
this
sand,
pure
was
So
tract
3d, yet
June
Rye
or
nothing
to
below
that
below
plow.
This
matter.
had
depth
closely acquainted
next
got
it and
possible, plowing
the
in
stances
circum-
any
in
a
of
possession
was
become
difficulty. He
sand
yellow
as
is
underneath.
danger in plowing this soil deep
no
the
to
it
enter
it with
could
he
found
He
though
air could
penetrated
as
inches
to
ranging
under
there
to
as
So
soil.
it.
the
as
four
that
well
so
own
studied
there
sand
the
never
"
Farm
gravel
into
to
concluded
him
and
that
with
eight
increased.
greatly
yellow
a
came
exceed
depth of
a
it
years
kill it."
pay
with
first
later
Vetchfalfa
feet
cautioned
was
author
would
being
twelve
to
author
plow
would
subsoil
three
"
author's
In
depth.
that
has
found
inches
sown
was
and
in
plowed
in
the
this
tract
spring
under
and
of
191
as
the
in
1
corn
the
deep
as
corn
the
in
the
stalks
disc
fall
and
plows
PLOWING
eS
manuring
green
its
greater
plow
is
in
used
plowing,
food
plowing
;
no
will
rather
but
the
that
so
danger
seed
long
moisture
the
proper
in
result
yields
be
the
bed,
as
can
crop
your
below
holding
growth,
root
plant
compounding
and
for
capacity
much
roots
deeper
the
that
surface;
plowed
the
their
send
will
crop
deep
materially
increased.
Tull,
that
maintained;
successive
without
fertility
large
of
crops
by
wheat
thoroughly
permanently
be
can
he
plowing
repeated
by
that
claims
the
on
produced
land
same
manure.
Tull's
Supplement
pulverizing
the
under
of
plenty
secret
of
building
soil.
its
soil
the
pulverizing
twelve
writer,
agricultural
an
soil
with
of
deep
organic
and
keeping
and
matter
up
the
and
plowing
the
and
plowing
frequent
of
system
you
fertility
turning
have
the
of
the
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CHAPTER
VI
SOIL
much
TOO
winter
and
the
is
Stand
floodtides
by
the
Hillsides
and
valleys
of
covered
thickly
under
the
covered
If
or
streams
The
of
could
rivers
remedy
to
litter.
their
soil
the
by
stated,
blown
of
the
to
the
be
appalling.
sea,
occurs
69
the
preserve
herbage
wear
away
will
soil
this
ried
car-
from
fields
the
winds.
wealth
falling
by
such
the
by
away
our
and
or
neither
waters
over
and
close-lying
water,
made
away
check
and
wash
not
be
by
year
it would
will
be
waters
ing
soil, mix-
the
as
with,
filled
soils
their
season.
falling
washing
and
winds,
and
root-filled
and
rainy
plants
action
each
away
clouds
rooted
which,
son.
sea-
ing.
leach-
by
their
upon
of
fall,
during
of
dust
swept
are
waters,
the
by,
estimate
an
the
in
frequently
and
particles of
of
soil
rivers
fall
that
will
leaching
to
year
consistency
rains
its
the
portance
im-
which
season
as
and
thick
soil
the
each
the
upon
your
known
streams
heavy
dissolving
Soils
is
the
to
during
which
our
and
more
that
covered
see
washing
doing
laid
be
cannot
destruction
by
and
so
rapid
the
it
spring,
Terrific
made
stress
of
keep
COVERING
into
the
our
blowing
of
of
soil
flow
COVERING
SOIL
70
wealth
the
to
by growing
The
soil.
The
of
of
vetch,
rye,
in
of
the
etc.
puddling
prevents
crops
and
occupied
not
possible with
as
decaying
and
minerals
the
mellow
open,
these
growing
characteristic
changes
much
as
soils with
the
depositing
in
soil,when
our
root-producing plants
Covering
of the
keeping
covered
crops,
and
herbage
is
sea,
the
roots
aids
bringing
about
the
soils.
new
of
texture
the
soil is
to
excessive
produced
by
covering.
clayey soils,subjected
Naked,
forces
them
crack
to
such
If
and
winds
drying
by
and
open
soils
rapid
evaporation,
water
their
is thus
texture
covered, they
are
lowed
rains, fol-
subject
not
are
jured.
in-
this process.
to
It has
of
kind
any
that
length
any
think
lying
snow
soil is covered
when
for
would
one
Even
it.
to
that
material
close
enriched
so
observed
been
been
plied
ap-
months
soil for
the
on
time, it is
of
had
manure
with
riches
en-
it.
rich
so
gave
In
was
the
is
then
the
humid
if after
cultivation, it will
Some
has
the
is cleaned
row
it will
it will
of
ages
be
was
Nature
covering
had
argue
a
that
period
native
of
course
and
out
that
to
fence
a
then
the
only
grass,
hood.
neighborfew
a
years
again brought
the
is rich
soil
into
and
abundantly.
the
of
that, if
weeds,
grow
trees
found
again produce
will
first
species of
different
fence
land
the
soil
virgin
reason
it is noticeable
region
neglected,
That,
that
of
account
on
the
it.
row
the
that
shown
already
I have
reason
rest,
of
this
forgetting
is that
the
fact
the
that
SOIL
a
soil works
and
hardest
COVERING
when
71
it is
growing
weeds,
grasses
trees.
An
fence
neglected
soil
of
observer
When
the
abandoned
by
rebuilding
and
the
by
grass
filled and
occupied
and
the
of
covered
the
fence
the
by
different
soil with
row
the
way
of
the
it in
hand
for
the
kinds
of
the
no
was
for
and
took
it
prepared
growing
in
soil restoration.
Nature
farmer.
first
Nature's
neglected
was
lesson
great
a
and
building
land
cultivated
longer
sees
It demonstrates
row.
soil
covering,
Nature
time
for
of
growing
weeds
decayed
which
and
roots
tops.
The
grass
and
the
Then
their
and
provided
retained
the
nitrates.
and
stored
into
roots
the
which
and
wastes
of
the
organic
legume
the
the
from
of
this
that
the
soil
the
weeds,
family
and
down
went
they
illustration
so
other
minerals
and
trunks,
fell down
we
deep
have
on
the
all
the
stirring,soil covering
soil.
restoring worn
covered
soil with
the
leaves, branches
in
that
soil.
trees
soil
tional
addi-
covering
of
potash and
covering
fact
the
soil when
in
soil
and
up
matter,
importance
secret
in
In
decayed.
their
of
the
the
to
stirred
Some
weeds
into
soil
a
roots.
brought
stored
of
The
lies
were
transferred
lessons
and
trees
soil and
were
be
soil
growing
furnished
tops
which
came
precious nitrogen into
the
The
to
little trees
rapidly
grasses
and
roots
matter
organic
gathered
whose
came,
promoting
soil
soil
ammonia
prevents
by evaporation,
and
fertility
the
loss
of
nitrogen.
To
preserve
soil
it
fertility,
must
be
kept
covered
as
SOIL
72
much
possible, yet the
as
of
matter,
of
washing
Soil
a
the
the
how
planted, the
rich
the
The
their
pasture
the
by
American
them, what
this
under
ering
cov-
under
to
covering during
is
without
by
into
his
herds
them;
and
the
fields
organic
and
baking
then
injury.
is
will
on
his soil, which
either
it
burn
he
If
a
or
would
for
gets
the
matter,
and
of
are
soil
exposure
to
followed
by
sun.
when
often
too
crop
green
then
of
coat
any
his
treat
and
gathered
turned
farmer
rains
dollars
of
snows
plowed
be
to
tramping, puddling
great
the
upon
gathered
would
we
is harvested
with
the
and
by
corn
by
he
few
to
be
laid
only exception
wheat,
when
material
stripped of their precious
washing
the
American
we
laid
covered
average
are
corn
horses
is ruined
and
sun
rest.
They
and
be
to
allowed
of
does
cornfields?
cattle
the
lesson
were
produced
fertility
of
season
But
of
tige
ves-
every
leaching season.
mass
with
corn
would
fertility
during
the
stock
no
of
What
heat
vetch, and
or
stalks,all
the
wealth
the
important
an
fields of
our
winter, and
mix
is
in rye
roll down
to
of
in
learn.
must
them
farming mostly
rains.
If, after
sow
of
system
strip the ground
it
expose
covering
farmers
a
is to
in America
vogue
COVERING
the
fields
farmer
sell
is
corn
has
a
it, instead
bring
him
more
pastured
stack
of
of
to
straw,
spreading
money
if he
it, and
are
burns
it
than
the
it he
has
gained nothing.
I
that
wish
he
I
must
its
could
cover
burn
his
fertility.
it into
every
soil if he
farmer,
American
would
keep
up
or
crease
in-
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CHAPTER
HOW
PRODUCE
TO
AND
VII
MATTER
ORGANIC
GET
INTO
THE
SOIL
the
IN
preceding
it
make
or
without
of
clear
that
the
fertility
the
liberal
that
farming
liberal
use
snare,"
and
of
use
lead
its
straight
to
system
and
delusion
a
the
stone
corner
"
is
matter
Any
matter.
for
have
not
organic
will
organic
maintained,
be
cannot
to
reclaimed,
be
cannot
soil
any
endeavored
have
soil
worn
of
does
of
I
chapters
a
abandoned
the
worn-out
of
organic
soils.
have
I
shown
Nature's
of
of
way
soil
of
use
in
ventilation,
and
him
matter
it must
so
organic
be
of
Her
to
of
storehouse
best
for
this
plants
into
do
the
her
was
our
way
his
wealth
75
and
how
we
portance
im-
are
soil
in
to
the
duce
pro-
soil ?
to
part
the
purpose.
bacteria,
part
seems
much
drainage,
in
furnish
that
garden
to
man
soil
soils, then
done
so
complete
for
matter
indeed,
multitude
up
all
of
being
matter
food
of
up
abundance.
great
and
securing
furnishing
has,
it is
and
aiding
get
Nature
and
use
building
organic
building
general
in
soil
the
restoration.
The
great
that
and
plants
furnishing
organic
be
full
select
that
a
matter
of
from
will
them,
this
serve
ORGANIC
PRODUCING
^e
it is conceded
While
the
organic
best
must
we
but
small
a
enough
does
of
its
up
And
must
we
will
number
of
restore
their
While
his
there
is
animals
that
from
element
It
is said
by
digest
in
the
off
land
fed,
the
these
In
the
from
sufficient
a
and
manure
to
know,
the
thus
he
will
add
from
loss
of
that
under
what
that
of
than
those
he
does
"
as
an
two-thirds
of
humus
of
tons
average,
the
of
ton
one
much
three
to
to
clover
soil
the
clover
hauled
is returned
manure
dry
to
the
fermentation."
liquids of
from
liquids
seems
manure.
that
so
as
that
that
only knows
plowing
destroy
they eat,
felt
Just
manuring
green
manure
has
manures.
green
if all the
even
usual
in
of
user
he
years
high authority
made
originally came
and
a
under
without
All
or
requisite amount
ordinary barnyard
manure
and
feed
liberal
a
not
for
food
the
hay plowed
as
stock
abandoned
and
to
the
for
of
does
best
are
of
matter
food
lacking
results
use
animals
farmer
rebuild
to
worn-out
been
use
is he
better
the
that
soils, yet
worn
that
crops
part
sufficient
needed
produce
has
author
some
gets
produces
average
keep
manure
soil,yet
fertility.
element
he
the
to
the
one-tenth
not
means
is
manure
farm
average
enough
to
supplied by the
be
into
put
manure,
forget
produce
the
upon
that
his farm.
not
not
be
can
the
of
supply
of
fertility
majority,
fertility.That
sufficient
the
maintain
soils
quantity
have
not
furnish
to
that
keep
to
that
forget
not
the
by
matter
MATTER
are
methods
value
any
the
the
plants
most
of
in
barnyard
grain
and
valuable
handling
part
manure
fed
of
manure
to
stock
manure.
nearly
the
ORGANIC
PRODUCING
whole
of
this
this
not
the
of
barnyard
has
saved
secured
all the
all
matter
get
our
he
the
bean,
corn
their
air;
but
of
those
of
rape,
alsike
and
there
for
best
are
vast
many
to
organic
To
straw.
serve
plants sub-
plants which
matter.
value, like
great
cowpea,
draw
of
producing organic
bean,
are
for
and
soy
to
power
forget
use
chapters the author
thick, white
plants
not
certain
others
many
sown
valuable
are
are
Essex
Leguminous
the
stubble
some
the
supply
a
for
matter
advises
do
make
for
adapted
field-pea,
turnip. Dwarf
of
for
subsequent
of
virtues
there
Canada
velvet
get, and
also
soil.
the
author
and
plants and
these
for
green
has
organic
humus
must
in
and
best
are
However,
that
of
under
we
in
matter
can
and
season,
supply
plow
supply,
describe
the
and
purpose,
thinks
from
dry
cornstalks, weeds,
further
a
will
roots
the
use
he
their
growing
sults
re-
manures
green
into
you
match
the
spare
the
assimilated
supplying
manure
of
from
the
notwithstanding this, the
But
than
use
better
gotten
which
greater
food, and
has
Does
waste.
liquids
of
a
to
go
manure
the
*jy
valuable
their
two-thirds
bacteria
In
the
during
to
author
green
manure?
plants
branches
of
the
of
use
all
manuring
thus
is allowed
explain why
from
saved
liquid
MATTER
buckwheat,
crimson
mustard,
clover,
etc.
manuring,
green
cause
be-
quantities of nitrogen
plants
non-leguminous
furnishing organic
and
matter
soil
covering.
The
one
ideal
that
which
during
can
plant for
be
will
make
the
winter
furnishing organic
in
planted
sufficient
season,
the
growth
and
fall
to
fillthe
of
is the
matter
the
cover
soil for
year,
the
a
and
ground
consider-
ORGANIC
PRODUCING
78
able
with
depth
its
nitrogen-gathering
When
of
other
it
the
than
into
disc
plow
It
in
is
or
right
"
roofing
or
furrow
slice
But
the
if
soil
is
disc
there
well
plows
rolled
will
to
cavities
soil
no
the
by
matter
the
prevent
that
of
corporated
in-
be
like
plow
a
portion
best
can
into
be
put
ill
effects
the
between
the
soil
the
"
of
of
bottom
soil
the
under.
mentioned
above
effects
a
better.
plants
use
is
plant
machine.
turned
and
ideal
produced,
the
organic
manner
soil
of
this
the
been
tilling
that
and
the
soil
deep
important
the
has
roots
the
much
so
matter
if
and
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be
fields
to
minerals
the
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crop.
and
and
half
a
per
fertilityto
that
say
in
It
manure.
it
I
the
on
the
it adds
land
well
supplied
much
as
but
I do
as
great
loads
practice it,and
to
siderable.
con-
dollars
produces
two-horse
of
green
three
manure,
it
forty
certainly pays
largely, even
of
loads
seasons
do
as
crop
that
say
forty
as
but
me
is
acre
per
cost
cannot
labor
evenly by
more
droughty
our
otherwise
The
:
says
manure
together
acre.
of
of
is done
soil
that
"
rye,
loads
labor
the
increase
an
this
acids
sorbs
ab-
soil.
applying evenly forty
All
It
washing.
to
and
writer, speaking of
One
liable
of
good
practice
to
with
stable
manure."
In
was
the
dryest
the
extreme
the
and
some
sweet
over
as
The
grown.
of
the
in head
was
of
the
under
vyQ
made
and
corn
ground
sod
entire
the
field
and
produced
field, and
yet
this
sweet
portion of
the
to
and
loose
was
corn
and
than
acre
broke
soil
plowed
was
per
soil
higher
under
planted
was
The
of
spring,
plowed
the
crop
which
more
field
field
the
on
grown
Some
ground.
not
would.
splendid
a
splendid
a
quite early in the
The
breaking
a
the
was
fall
ing
notwithstand-
but
covered
The
corn.
years,
the
and
plowed
In
friable,
and
winter
heading.
was
corn.
turned
for
had
in
rye
high rolling ground
on
it
until
had
planted
drought
was
rye
I
1907
we
before
growth
of
fall of
the
was
rolling portion
when
the
the
rye
remainder
field
the
was
poorest.
I
rye
had
another
in the
fall of
ten-acre
1907.
field, which
This
field
was
I
also
planted
subject
to
much
to
RYE
the
but
washing,
winter
that
In
spring
I
the
for
peas
disced
equal
on
grown
On
the
sowed
soil.
By
green
rye.
I
began
in
one-half
of
field to
field corn,
to
made
and
same,
the
for
the
wheat
solid
a
was
the
drill I
of
the
of
mass
following spring
field
in
was
of
bushels
eighty
per
alfalfa,
preparation
early
hay.
splendid hay
disc
a
peas
hungarian.
hay, except
any
and
of
to
of
any
field
field I broke
harvested
hungarian
with
the
ist
This
to
without
rye
the
it in
sowed
were
sowed
tons
September
December
for
value
feeding
20th
cutting
washed.
was
removal
July 15th
and
farm.
planted
tilth
and
the
the
and
field
field
peas
the
completely
so
field and
The
After
9th.
three
produced
acre,
this
early plowed
6th
ground
portion of the
no
and
the
September
It
the
canning factory.
a
July 7th, 8th,
I
covered
rye
before
83
splendid
corn
per
acre.
In
growing
make
spring.
spring.
the
growing
will
Some
soil is
sour
from
it
also
only
unproductive.
into
if you
dry
so
do
is
tell you
when
Ditch
manuring
that
it is
and
the
believe
it
get the
of
large
Heavy
tation
vege-
moisture.
out
soil.
of
matter,
thus
and
injure
to
Your
non-ventilated
water
and
Some
it.
the
vegetable
plants,
too
the
You
can.
as
of
cold, wet,
in
soil
sours
fall
both
under.
get
conservator
a
large quantities
green
not
you
as
it to
out
in
pastured
plow
to
allow
But
under
long
as
farmers
most
close
too
it be
growth
a
it will
it
should
grow
large
crop.
plowed
pasturing
it to
that
it under
plow
fertilizingpurposes
case
no
too
tell you
may
In
Allow
have
cannot
of
mistake
the
and
for
rye
start
and
it,plow
produced
up
the
RYE
84
of
circulation
it, and
into
air
it becomes
and
warm
sweet.
is
Soil
is
drained, and
it is well
Next
feeding organic
While
is
rye
it is
plants, yet
of
one
makes
soil and
food
in
It
especially adapted
is
well
the
stiff
on
The
built
of
crops
always
farmers
a
acre,
and
wheat
is
We
who
of
under
well
it
will
the
for
best
The
neighborhood.
his
I
as
in
the
wonderful
a
From
from
holding
stated, is contrary
and
70
cents
and
labor
it is
two
to
$1
per
cost
of
seeding
bushel
in
to
rye
easily
so
of
seed
will
seed
bushels
to
one
in
weapon
corn
are
sentimentally inclined
Scottish
love
"
lyric,
delight in
Comin'
Thro'
its words:
"
crop.
or
aid
and
at
an
after
insignificant.
the
humming
corn
owner
corn
helped his land
which,
grow
restored
been
produces
under
soils.
poor
drained.
has
that
exhaustion,
soil
grown.
of
cost
the
seasons,
have
combating
cheaply
and
gathers
belief.
general
The
in
dry
lands
plowing
plowed
crops
in
in
for
sandy
farm
It
rye.
on
are
forage
fertilizingpurposes.
growth
they
a
of
fine
until
rye
rye
sows
rye
of
farm
any
moisture
to
with
up
if
lands
knows
author
and
His
clay
to
sour.
never
for
cleaning, sow
ized.
pulver-
soil needs
valuable
most
valuable
as
soil needs
If your
fertile soil is
the
equally
and
ventilating, sour
A
matter.
if
crops
green
rolled
thoroughly
and
draining
to
under
by plowing
soured
never
If
a
body
meet
If
a
body
kiss
a
a
body, comin'
body, need
a
thro*
the
rye,
body cry?"
the
dies
melo-
the
Rye,"
RYE
of
the
plant
rye
for
pass,
if
in
maiden
when
But
who
we
look
only
those
build
cheaply
We
for
provided
appreciated
feeding
always
its
best
weather
worth
elements
of
up
little
so
material
welfare,
our
it
is
available
so
service
and
to
seasons.
of
one
and
us
under
food
the
so
the
is
rye
Aside
best
varied
soil
to
and
find
that
in
that
of
one
from
conditions
tility.
fer-
best
God
has
the
least
its
great
and
builders,
respond
the
and
quickly
and
things
willing
the
Thro'
hearts
can
highest
farm.
the
on
Comin'
our
things,
good
and
rye
Scottish
the
"
in
plant
the
rich
kiss.
of
to
appreciate
crops
value,
soils
our
field,
a
of
sentiment
no
ture
pic-
can
blooming
lover,
coveted
the
have
the
to
plant
rye
claimed
we
of
blushes
to
wont
plant
majestic,
stalwart
stepping-
were
scene
the
the
her
by
met
who
Rye,"
hid
foliage
its
and
rye
lovely
of
growth
the
singing
was
maidens
of
the
bard
Rye
Scottish
imagination
our
River
the
singing
was
whose
plant,
of
the
beautiful
the
the
he
Scottish
the
or
which
o'er
stones
in
whether
wonder
We
85
is
give
and
of
soil,
BUNCH
A
OF
VETCH
TAKEN
FROM
ICE
UNDER
AND
WATER.
This
the
vetch
of
month
showed
the
no
covered
was
with
the
January, yet
injury. This vetch
illustration
of
a
field of
ice
and
plants
was
vetch
were
taken
in
for
water
three
bright and
from
full bloom.
the
weeks
green
field shown
in
and
in
HUNGARIAN
90
that
but
of
part
field
the
in
previously
hungarian
was
easily cultivated.
more
Farmers
and
after
it is
that
say
of
of
exhaustion
On
year.
the
which
I
say
six
to
I shun
it
farm
of
years
and
the
hasten
I would
as
of
the
rattlesnake.
a
rebuild
to
for
grown
total
after
year
treatment
been
cause
be-
Mean,
timothy
grow
has
timothy
to
is the
prove
farm.
way
best
yet raise year
can
American
soil than
foundation,
soil,and
certain
more
no
which
soil upon
the
on
the
my
It takes
three
or
years.
of
I know
for
the
If
I
It is said
that
acid
phosphoric
to
sow
or
$1.50
an
to
the
get
60
take
six
tons
producer
a
ton
to
of
addition
is grown
and
the
or
from
but
nitrogen
tons
$20
pay
farm.
my
of
But
value
the
matter.
in blossom
contains
one-half
one-half
If
six
and
generally
of
on
pounds
of
pounds of potash.
acre.
per
ton,
to
organic
and
barnyard
and
of
on
something
say
hungarian
one
worth
it
grow
seventeen
acre
per
of
timothy
rather
I would
nitrogen, five
pounds
nitrogen,
$1.50
a
$2.25
to
to
growing
unfit
years.
than
was
one
acre,
you
In
buy hay,
and
from
It takes
of
to
of
pounds
twenty
the
of
digressed, I
as
utterly made
number
timothy hay
hungarian
rich, almost
by
crops
forced
for
I have
than
of
great
a
was
ton
per
fields,once
growing
for
them
of
of
soil robber
I know
of
robber
timothy,
year
meanest
four
a
without
hungarian
condemn
will
to
to
manure
of
same
bushels
$1.50
three
is
the
per
plowed
60
garian
hun-
under,
It
acre.
is worth
manure
bushel,
of
tons
produce
of seed
will
pounds
not
less
$9.
large amount
of
nitrogen
and
potash
HUNGARIAN
in
organic
matter
for
and
loosening
If
Hungarian
advise
sowing
three
have
plowing
By
a
after
fall
crop.
little
wheat,
and
which
a
has
in
inches
in
manuring
is
the
also
the
has
and
to
two
or
which
as
I
is
tillage
ing
leach-
the
during
another
tured,
ma-
sow
from
"
itself,
ered,
gathwhen
season,
covered
spring
is
seed
of
a
would
then
deep
during
I
crop
deep,
advantage
soil
soil
and
season,
the
oats
before
six
or
the
be
Your
manure."
for
of
ventilation.
crop,
or
of
humus,
as
soil
ground
and
have
plowings
to
wheat
the
five
then
shown
the
blossom
under
You
rye.
in
available
for
and
quantities
vast
plowing-under
a
plowing
or
plow
as
after
it
is
Hungarian
used
the
and
soil
the
up
is
discing
under
plow
to
of
think
Hungarian,
of
ton
a
91
valuable
crop
under.
hustling
plowed
would
a
crop
in
under
be
of
of
could
Hungarian
time
immense
to
sow
value
be
in
wheat
to
sown
the
wheat
the
a
CHAPTER
SAND,
the
1906
IN
It
had
stock.
of
he
when
its
that
owners
soil
robbers
its
bounty.
The
until
and
author
for
and
The
of
character
One-third
ridges,
is
third
The
large
the
portion
Indian
consists
level, sandy
it
upon
of
any
handled
by
withdrawing
by
was
and
of
its
given
the
ness,
cheap-
laugh
of
and
of
deep
any
extent
and
the
loam
of
lay
the
land
yellow
being
other
is
culiar.
pe-
sand,
placed
level.
One-
third
black
bash
Wa-
land.
farm
entire
walnut,
in
its
early
oak
and
having
been
poplar,
land
sandy
of
soil
the
portion
no
bottom
on
been
it
doing.
so
in
of
to
because
and
county.
brick,"
occur
penalty
possibilities,
the
trading
unloading
to
farm
the
as
gold
simply
the
this
purchased
location
"
seemed
paying
was
had
possession
a
in
had
in
about
into
got
succeeded
farm
the
buffeted
never
that
poorest
purchased
It
farm
a
the
sooner
he
victim.
other
some
and
had
he
of
one
no
found
VETCH
purchased
being
owner
rested
never
HAIRY
kicked
been
Each
OR
author
reputation
X
the
reserve,
farm.
set
The
apart
history
other
as
land
by
95
the
as
a
government
with
the
timber,
heavy
was
covered
was
on
timber
the
portion
to
other
of
the
an
In-
96
OR
SAND,
in
dians
cleared
and
1818
produced
large
the
by
than
more
HAIRY
Indians
sixty
years
the
principle of getting
and
putting nothing
back
of
sandy
farm
had
become
but
the
black
the
acre.
In
the
abandoned
As
yield
that
in
had
anticipated.
"
Me
The
peas
a
a
Various
to-wit
tomatoes
sons
sea-
Even
after
year
bushels
the
the
to
of
borderland
farm
he
had
him
Indian
conflict
hard
to
learn
he
than
more
who
being
was
exclaimed,
who
and
the
long
tackled
like the
was
of
many
take
not
and
he
season
money
crops
:
and
planted the sandy portion
Seven
to
a
of
the
of
value
were
Peas,
$15
grown
sugar
potatoes.
the
peas
corn,
Some
June
per
on
of
weeks
of
value
money
before
corn
realized, would
soon
study.
purposes.
crop
sweet
author
land, the
removal
planted in
brought
He
work
the
the
Upon
of
Some
corn
40
the
bushels
10
failure.
in
on
tem
sys-
it produced
season
entire
than
year
this
acre.
against
up
hand-to-hand
canning
reduced
the
just
was
been
this
this
some
first
for
less
each
heap big fight."
a
reclaim
require
fell to
upon
portion of
best
farmed
was
life, it did
acquiring
in
To
has
author
in
an
farmed
farm.
propositions of
worsted
were
farm
fine, the
the
to
portion
bottom
until
year
wheat
years
Under
5 to
corn,
was
many
can
soil.
in the
of
wheat
and
oats
corn,
been
two-thirds
that
of
for
and
and
1833,
it all you
the
or
bushels
20
bushels
10
into
poor
so
to
15
and
oats
the
in
always
of
out
sold
ago,
It had
crops.
farming
VETCH
25.
dry
$10
land
to
early
weather
per
disced
was
The
sweet
acre.
and
corn
acre.
the
farm
the
canning beets,
commercial
first
son,
sea-
field corn,
fertilizer
and
He
thusiastic.
''
voice
!"
Eureka
soils, while
sandy
poor
on
of
height
"
four
feet
five
or
his
he
came
to
is suited
to
any
soil,
produces good
produces
and
crops
it grows
land
good
on
of
top
until
it
as
the
at
on
It
:
in this respect,
is valuable
and
read
he
But
shout
to
description said
the
where
ready
was
VETCH
HAIRY
OR
SAND,
98
to
a
enormous
crops."
This
alchemic
precious
in
"
hand
Yes,
And
this
in
the
his
entire
farm,
the
same
the
of
planted
sand
winter
the
the
seed
ground
examination
nitrogen
"
pen
acres.
nodules.
of
of the
so
the
roots
Early
with
thinks
he
propositions
the
thing
very
enough
for
acres,
enough
to
he
had
plant
to
following spring planted
the
corn
most
al-
crop
farm.
received, and
It
August
rollingtwo
grew
rapidly,
completely
land
in
most
and
was
showed
in the
strated,
demon-
experience
from
the
farm.
was
foliage that washing
An
was
poorest
the
on
two
subsequent
of
when
nerve
ordered
received
price
the
upon
land
had
two
sow
hands
had
plant
the
as
have
would
time
he
with
hardest
the
in his
have
then
and
purchase
due
the
years' experience
only
to
to
nerve
in field corn,
he
was
seed
vetch
possessed
In
it, he
overcome
enough
order
to
smiles
of
one
having placed
life,and
would
that
six
author
against
that, being up
of his
found
which
down
enough
light of
the
plant, the
valuable
for
sat
had
acres!
whole
now,
seed
ordered
and
two
immediately
and
he
that
indeed
had
soil-enriching art
searching,
been
convinced
was
search, and
in his
rewarded
been
He
enough.
was
covered
it
acres
and
by
with
its
entirely prevented.
them
set
spring, before
thick
with
any
other
OR
SAND,
of
kinds
plants
May
of
pushing
were
they
I
the
June
The
author
for
plant
farm,
farm,
21
seed
to
for
The
in
of
one
field and
21
Both
of
1908
the
ground
Delays
were
such
that
the
broken
until
May
25.
The
feet, and
the
of
five
it
that
almost
was
dozen
makes
when
finally success
plow, and
look
of
inviting,for
sticking out
of
rolling, and
to
3
the
of
the
It
was
leave
the
for
to
failure,
double
a
here
disc
did
prospect
field
half
A
complete
showed
heavy
so
under.
The
corn.
height
a
was
with
and
not
there
worked
was
down
planting by dragging
and
4
planted
was
i
entirely
not
was
grown
with
The
May
was
break
to
turn
obtained
for
it
vegetation
tried
ground.
June
on
of
of vetch
condition
fairly good
to
land
and
had
vetch
finished.
was
by
1907,
and
field
-acre
were
bunches
the
21
was
of
corn
condition
mass
plows
caution
in another.
wet,
impossible
field
the
in
was
valuable
a
usual
field
very
before
first
luxuriantly.
grew
was
by
the
found
sandiest
four
to
acres
About
August
and
vetch
hay.
had
in
vetch
poorest
pasture.
spring
for
he
the
grow,
foliage, and
exemplified
the
the
to
length.
cut
yet
acres
on
acres
decided
other
25
being
sowing
in
were
99
summer
clearly that
saw
planting only
feet
acres
the
their
out
four
were
two
VETCH
vegetation began
or
grass
HAIRY
to
and
yellow
corn.
Dire
were
the
Many
contended
would
absorb
corn
would
was
his
counsel
predictions made
that
all the
perish.
heavy
moisture
And
fairly hopeful.
and
the
awaited
it
from
cannot
But
he
results.
as
to
of
mass
the
be
the
outcome.
vegetation
ground
said
that
and
the
the
thor
au-
gritted his teeth,
held
The
corn
came
up
a
splendid stand.
and
as
soon
set
were
It
day,
and
up
they
when
he
five
six
and
a
then
did
his eyes
the
and
of
high,
field of
and
made
having
done
grew
the
My,
growing
his
to
pride
to
corn
look
something
along
the
and
!
grew
to
promising
un-
so
presented.
take
corn
grew
growth
on
it
How
it!
upon
author
sparkled
He
while.
worth
began
Jack's
for
life,
new
pride the
like
self
him-
farmer
a
the
highway
corn
author
seen
further
no
it seemed
!
the
as
never
and
dry,
the
said
this field
as
was
swelled
corn
The
corn
grow
notice
bean
after
field he
had
he
When
plainly shown
was
them,
the
set
to
cultivator.
of
upon
when
travelers
the
men
ing,
plow-
out
came
harvested, told
been
for
neighbors and
as
its first
forty years' experience
it did
how
glory
One
weather
week,
in that
take
the
indirectly come
city
disgust
agricultural tools
inches
than
more
the
field
field had
stated, the
or
of
remarks
two-row
new
this
prospect
a
As
to
a
first looked
seller of
and
insufficiently
receiving
from
men
in all his
that
little difficulty
points.
would
was
countenances.
when
side
cultivators
a
vetch
cultivator
the
corn
working
in this
grown
that
the
taken
their
upon
the
on
the
no
slowly,
grew
with
of
added
ears.
start
were
worked
bunches
hear
to
hardware
two
corn
were
cultivators, which
author's
One
The
and
catching
the
working
situation.
of
amusing
in, which
set
sufficientlylarge
account
was
VETCH
was
work,
to
under
the
it
as
on
plowed
the
to
HAIRY
weather
Dry
little discomfort
to
OR
SAND,
100
felt
The
to
take
famous
stalk.
corn,
of
the
notwithstanding
field, was
of
the
the
rolling and
same
height,
acter
hilly charevery
hill
OR
SAND,
of
alike, and
of
growth
When
had
color
green
its
of
mass
to
waist
reached
corn
predicted
begins
dark
103
indicating the healthy
corn.
the
great
it
the
VETCH
HAIRY
vetch
turned
and
ear,
demise
untimely
then
"
said
will
of
the
until
Wait
:
it fire and
see
who
prophets
account
on
under
you
the
height
wither
up."
the
But
of
height
of
ears
It
had
corn
eight
golden
and
corn,
field for twenty
of
their
done
"
that
crop
had
they
of
almost
The
soil to
the
to
invariably
The
three
ot
known
It
'J2
$35
bushels
per
to
been
the
with
what
this
passing
out
stop, get
field
examine
to
w^hat
of
field to
corn
of
ears
by the remarkable
growth
this
and
acre.
inquire
a
was
on
had
been
saying
corn,
have
it
upon
this field
was
to
the
its
harvesting stage,
sound
and
made
hauled
acre,
to
and
market,
brought
a
money
acre.
planter used
grains
the
it
failure."
gathered,
was
and
value; that
any
a
into
such
cause
the
above
would
corn,
over
finally reached
corn
by weight
value
of
the
house
never
corn
solid.
and
go
stop at the
then
it,and
and
had
attracted
more,
of
to
hill
opposite
acquainted
not
field, who
or
years
vehicles
bushels
county
condition
and
growth
its
after
every
corn
clear
fired
20
the
to
and
neighbor's
make
the
done
been
the
bore
weather
dry
fired
not
The
not
of
Residents
had
yet it had
public highway
did
of
weeks
six
to
green.
the
across
it reached
corn.
silked, and
and
until
up
feet, silked, tasseled, and
ten
subject
was
bright
a
to
and
up
grew
the
to
plant the
hill,and
never
corn
was
missed
set
to
putting
drop
three
in
grains
made
which
reduced
of
had
the
the
think
not
short
for
twenty
the
to
and
but
was
This
ten
bushels
time
a
seed
yield
more
with
produced
feat
fully
But
acre.
that
land
on
than
more
in
accomplished
the
as
of
cost
so
the
acre.
per
with
experiment
years
little expense,
so
the
to
grown
this
and
acre,
grains,
condition
being
corn
or
this
bushels
more
four
dropped
thick, and
or
of
$3.50
often
too
too
corn
'J2
bushels
20
hill, but
the
VETCH
HAIRY
OR
SAND,
I04
vetch
made
the
author
vetch
a
enthusiast.
In
of
August
the
the
notwithstanding
and
been
for
rain
no
eight
he
1908
year
planted thirty
dry fall, there
extreme
after
weeks
it
was
acres,
having
it grew
sown,
nicely.
In
the
corn,
for
spring
seven
view
for
acres
it
for
plowed
was
balance
the
and
potatoes,
field
corn.
in
illustration
The
of
acres
eight
or
sweet
ten
of
the
of
part
poorest
of
front
the
this
field of
the
book
shows
taken
corn
a
tember
Sep-
7, 1909.
this
Upon
had
corn
five
particular spot of ground shown
never
feet, with
vetch
was
when
plowed
this
the
every
heaviest, being four
the
in
under
is
is
field
for
wheat,
year
yield of
corn
a
black
a
half
a
century
stalks
had
been
soil
with
majority
were
from
; the
a
of
the
almost
a
soil
The
whole
having
of
years
in
recent
failure
on
of
been
corn,
oats
corn,
and
years
to
the
height
remainder
In
burned.
in
the
rotation
or
Here
feet
May.
sandy clay,
gumbo
greater
the
a
five
or
picture
four
yield.
poor
of
middle
the
height of
a
correspondingly
particular spot
farmed
and
a
exceed
to
grown
in the
40
the
bush-
SAND,
io6
and
two-fifths
soil
deficient
and
potatoes
land
farm
of
potatoes
after
VETCH
planted after
vetch
produced
double
and
the
on
HAIRY
nearly
fertilityproduced
planted
acre,
by side
side
in
his
on
the
to
acres
OR
the
at
the
some
on
of
amount
soil after
same
rate
vetch
on
bushels,
450
of
the
sandiest
of
150
bushels
potatoes
grown
clover
crimson
plowed
under.
doubt
No
is :
Why
crop
?
the
question suggested
The
question
it to
believe
of
is
there
animal
the
as
soil
a
answered
it, and
that
to
be
with
has
Nature
for
few
words.
found
in
originally built
up
for
that
every
if
remedy
a
of
disease
every
to
and
fertilizer
or
a
mind
ing
humus-produc-
writ
holy
as
it is up
kingdom,
reader's
garden.
true
body
remedy
a
be
human
find
only
can
value
be
may
in Nature's
plant found
disease
much
so
greatest nitrogen-gathering and
It is the
We
of
is vetch
the
to
man
soil
the
plant, mineral
the
and
find
to
man
or
ply
ap-
it.
If
soil
was
it not
can
disintegrated minerals
with
matter
Southern
Under
have
kept built
be
forage
it
purposes,
nutritive
In
qualities.
The
same
an
the
it
vetch
the
late
next
is
why
?
process
supposed
it is cultivated
Europe
in
Sown
farmer,
unknown,
annual
then
stones,
equal
summer
If
year.
to
clover
or
early
in
the
to
for
in
tumn,
au-
spring,
year.
American
trying
it is
the
and
being regarded
it is harvested
it is cut
all
vegetable
same
skies
European
its birth.
had
the
by
up
by mixing
has
plant, and
readily
reseeds
slow
or
overly
rarely cultivated
must
be
itself,as
it.
seeded
I
cautious
have
As
each
in
stated,
year,
pastured
though
alit
HAIRY
OR
SAND,
VETCH
with
cattle,taking the cattle from
and
then
allowed
ground, discing
giving
up,
Vetch
of
is,as
cents
and
procured
at
of
seed
cost
a
f.
pound
per
seed,
to
fall upon
the
the
seed
America,
in
cultivated
country
Fifty pounds
came
b.
o.
in
Europe
the
farmer
shipping
the
to
to
supply
ported
im-
and
of
63^
station.
is the
acre
the
right quantity
plant.
to
In
I
corn
feed
The
is
If vetch
the
off
vetch
a
trailingone,
a
plant
When
for
acre.
be
sowed
The
acre.
is hard
it to
rye
seed
separate
be
can
harvest
it
with
holds
The
thresh
and
cut
and
to
drill
up
plant is
it has
unless
it.
support
ripe,
planting
must
the
easily harvested.
hence
machine
the
to
be
can
is
seed, there
drill.
two-horse
or
to
disc
or
two-horse
a
one
average
rye
with
seed
threshing
seed
of
and
sown
Seed
for
it
with
sow
hoe
one-horse
a
just 50 pounds
sown
so
the
sows
peck
one
I
open
of
gauge
with
seed
the
In
entirelyshut
about
the
sow
drill.
wheat
with
with
procured
ordinary
fanning
from
mill.
most
any
house.
The
plant has
vetch
soil to
of
thoroughly,
consequence,
this
to
10
a
and
to
began
stand.
fine
a
me
field
being rarely
seed
to
the
it
as
ripen
seed
the
it
107
a
considerable
nodules, the
food
from
collect
stored
The
of the
the
into
The
the
of the
roots
penetrating
roots
are
bacteria
air, and
that
which
than
they need,
and
pea
which
always
obtain
the
full
their
it is claimed
surplus is
soil.
clover, alfalfa
legume
of
nitrogen
the
of
mass
depth.
homes
nitrogen
more
a
family
are
plants
considered
and
valuable
other
to
plants
the
soil
these
have
ten
have
one.
will
is
nodules
on
their
nodules
on
its roots
vetch
The
plow
roots
the
to
tons
that
for
matter
The
is
from
under
plowing
of
the
twelve
such
produces
plants
soil that
the
plant of
no
other
foliage
will
plant
to
the
it
plant
twenty
nitrogenof
ganic
or-
is furnished
by
the
field mentioned
in
the
as
quantity
a
plant.
When
plowing
of
corn
had
crop
vetch
the
knitted
together, and,
On
ground.
their
the
like
skins
it
mass
had
been
of
top
on
out
the
the
on
fell into
mass
the
themselves
spread
air the
the
the
mass
plow turning
sheep
to
exposure
whole
the
large
that
into
interlaced
had
the
observed
down
way
until
stems
looked
it
author
the
after
spring
next
under, and
around
furrow,
the
grown,
pushed
plowed
vetch
2 1 -acre
chapter
been
had
roots
corn
the
up
this
beginning
of
in
produces
There
acre.
gathering species
vetch
it
that
these
numerous
ing
hav-
they
vetch
a
where
sod.
heavy
but
roots;
so
are
like
up
massive
so
nitrogen-gatheringpowers,
their
of
because
VETCH
HAIRY
OR
SAND,
io8
small
pieces.
observation
This
roots
in this
found
had
proved
found
After
that
the
acre
of
to
six
it
of
plowed
forty dollars,
the
greatest
excepted.
With
not
author
that
vegetable
feeding
and
of
with
the
matter
moisture
the
it I
is
corn
great
a
were
plants.
corn
convinced
am
Agricultural Department,
under
is
the
feed
years' experience
claim
It is the
not
for the
in abundance
of
mass
both
where
feeding ground,
to
equivalent in value
that
an
to
twenty
discovered,
alfalfa
extravagant.
soil builder
it and
ever
ditching
I
can
reclaim
any
OR
SAND,
make
can
it
soil.
With
produce
as
worn-out
or
poor
his soil
rescued
was
Vetch
from
is the
most
valuable
is the
most
valuable
for
builds
the
air
the
the
is
rich
Winter
of
stand.
its
blow
of
and
it
or
of
the
in
precious,
settles
clay
down
it with
and
and
fall,spring
it, but
hold
the
with
business
or
or
when
it, it smiles
doing
soil
frost
its hand
months,
the
as
of
of
terrors
no
and
well
as
its business
it heeds
with
sick, impoverished
and
the
will
it not,
caressed
its
at
summer
storing fertilityin
being constantly
was
poor
releases
upon
situated
nitrogen
It
and
of
mysteriously
so
soil,nitrogen.
continues
drought
its business
who
soils.
has
grasp
alfalfa
little homes
pretty
of
If
discovered.
ever
many
the
months
breath
oven
since
discovered, vetch
ever
commences
spring
green
The
continues
though
for
soil.
quantities of
rich
It
will
sunshine
old
the
once.
icy clasp
freshness
soil great
sand, and
drought.
warm
so
of
at
it in its
roots
respecter
restoration
produced
never
clover-sick
storehouse
with
poor
or
for
to
no
farmer
wilderness.
acquisition
its home
makes
it has
109
American
fertilizingplant
great
the
above
Vetch
it the
nitrogen-gatherers,
valuable
most
VETCH
forage plant
its
on
busy
from
draw
the
remedy
is the
Vetch
HAIRY
the
and
soil
as
refreshing
showers.
It
finds
it with
touches
touch
life,pouring
into
soil
the
food
of
restoring power,
the
soil
out
its wealth
for beast
It will yet
desolation
its
enter
the
and
upon
awakens
and
with
of
new
under
its stimulating
and
plant growth
It
dying.
renewed
that
ripens
man.
the
abandoned
fields, fill the
farm, banish
unoccupied
farmhouse
the
and
barns
the
laughter
All
hail
with
of
King
the
of
songs
children
Vetch,
VETCH
HAIRY
OR
SAND,
no
and
happy,
the
Nature's
parents,
prosperous
riches
of
greatest
fertile
fields.
soil
restorer!
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ALFALFA
114
There
plant
no
farmer
the
to
is
to
barn
alfalfa.
as
it he
grow
his
grew,
and
began
the
to
farmer
fat.
His
menced
com-
bank
count
ac-
canceled, his house
w^as
that
profitable
so
Kansas
wax
filled with
statelybuildings
machinery
is
that
lessen
those
toil, and
and
ments
equiplife
make
while.
worth
If this
why
plant has
it
can
in
state
three
so
much
as
much
for
for
the
farmer,
Kansas
farmers
the
of
every
Union?
farm
the
on
of
crops
done
do
not
the
Alfalfa
hay
in most
each
state
any
whose
season
least
at
means
feeding
has
power
equal.
no
It
plenty of
means
how
the
dry
It
means
ever
grown
It
means
It
means
season
a
fattening
and
fed
into the
this
this
roots
for
way
the
system
the
of
soils
thus
of
wasted
farming
rests, will
down
from
air
the
deep
air, producing
up
the
into
the
bringing
ing
mak-
rebuilding and
their
the
fertilityby
in this
long practiced
so
poultry.
and
water
liberating and
precious nitrogen, and
again
food
any
and
mutton
long nodule-producing
plant minerals, drawing
rich
in
animal.
never
soil,opening the
soil the
than
powers
busy plant,
matter,
matter
no
hog, greater
which
that
valuable
the
milk, butter, beaf,
better
organic
sordid
for
preserving
to
all stock
be.
in abundance
health
and
for
pasture
may
food
its great
send
of
farm
When
mortgage
into
grew
the
on
land
ours.
Some
alfalfa
farmers
is because
so
much
say
that
it is hard
labor
and
the
to
reason
they
do
not
get it started; that
patience
to
get
the
grow
it
quires
re-
proper
ALFALFA
and
stand
that
start
they
115
afford
not
can
to
bother
to
get
with
it.
The
author
of and
grow
clover.
He
alfalfa
has
successful
not
the
When
in
(and
of
the
the
thereafter
following
has
then
bloomed,
under
the
season
deeply
as
and
dragged.
This
and
the
is
times,
an
and
the
harrow.
upon
of
manure
vetch
The
alfalfa
alfalfa.
will
ground
And
also
insure
of
to
soil
and
times
it
plowed
are
rolled
in
done
coating
is
July,
several
until
the
the
worked
thin
a
it is
plowing
stand
under
of
after
of
will insure
of
alfalfa.
vetch
a
ing
plow-
soil with
coating
plowed
with
spread
into
a
until
pulverization.
thin
of
The
dragged
of
the
to
thoroughly
generally
sand
to
same.
stalks
in
corn.
grow
done
after
the
off
easy
deep
field
spreading being
spreading
to
sugar
the
number
a
of
or
field
ter
charac-
to
land
the
field
the
and
rolled
being
manure
the
his alfalfa
reference
corn
only
a
of
attention
no
stock
is
state
to
falfa
Al-
pursued
thirty-fivepounds
and
quite
excellent
has
sowed
plowing
not
soil.
is allowed
vetch
spreader, the
manure
he
all
is available
manure
by
kept
is harrowed
but
soil is in
If
field
either
possible
as
drained
plowed
to
of
the
requisite
field with
rate
the
at
grow
success:
paid
the
laid
was
vetch
and
acre,
field he
and
first
author
location
the
planted
corn
hairy
or
and
the
stock), he
and
the
of
stand
a
feet."
wet
upon
stand
a
well
a
great
selected
barn
spring
After
with
selectingthe
to
is
"
get
that
alfalfa
decided
soil, but
access
of
methods
he
found
with
grow
it is easier
it is to
growing
growing
following
that
than
also
alfalfa
can
In
found
has
the
manure
a
stand
without
ALFALFA
ii6
seed
The
either
sown
front
the
covered
with
he
the
that
noticed
the
firmly of
a
The
the
belief
stand
of
of
seven
claim
many
author
has
unable
the
see
first
plant
is when
Authorities
when
first started
to
its
established
that
for
with
this
the
soil ; that
its
supply
you
must
reason
in
establish
be
used
the
soil
itself.
to
or
of
bacteria
At
this
stage
The
mower.
alfalfa
to
its
the
proper
from
out
alfalfa
is
plant
from
nitrogen
plant
sary
neces-
is well
the
air;
soil inoculated
your
have
get the
is true,
supply
of
plenty
alfalfa
for
of
plant
method
some
nitrogen
soil intended
after
vigor.
the
if this
in the
was
but
push
the
and
and
and
the
at
after
have
cannot
you
Then,
secure
height
method;
that
nitrogen-gathering bacteria,
nitrogen
must
it draws
us
curing
se-
first to
the
get its nitrogen, which
must
life,from
tell
in
depth.
clipping
it loses
or
is
a
a
begin
best
reach
mowed
be
as
occasioned
are
baby
in either
shoots
new
alfalfa
on
failures
weeks.
without
must
ground,
the
author
will
clipping of
grow
alfalfa
The
clipped with
be
difference
any
near
six
covered,
is from
seed
the
getting
sufficient
plant
in
inches
it to
season
stage, which
the
The
practiced the
allowed
to
alfalfa
press
im-
to
the
alfalfa
a
well
covered
best.
or
covered
August.
of
to
be
wishes
majority of
clover
attached
well
or
was
the
the
sow
it should
has
also
ground,
is
acre
must
author
importance
was
that
seed
seed
the
to
seeder
a
The
the
either
eight
or
The
alfalfa
to
of
drill.
the
getting seed
time
best
or
where
that
the
in
seeder
the
into
pounds
twenty
grow.
reader
of
middle
to
not
stand
failure
disc
a
deep enough
has
by
hand
a
it will
or
of
rate
of
part
upon
seed
the
at
and
the
gen-gatheri
nitroalfalfa
ALFALFA
Various
field.
methods
such
experts,
from
with
of
fields and
the
seed, heavy
the
before
seed, and
alfalfa
is
this
doing
soil
as
alfalfa
sowing
117
inoculation
spreading
manuring,
alfalfa
feeding
and
planted
field before
the
sowing
alfalfa
hay
stock
to
the
manure
impressed
with
using
soil
taking
by
upon
falfa
al-
given by
are
meal
a
year
the
on
field.
The
has
author
of
method
spreading
that
alfalfa
alfalfa.
seed
poor
that
stand
that
"
from
has
he
but
for
is
He
no
plant would
for
vigor
of
shown
has
spread
Upon
will
upon
have
and
soil
the
it and
that
to
oculate
in-
will
manure
exceeded
growth
field and
manure
where
grow
lating
inocu-
sown.
and
that
furrow
dead
a
upon
be
to
Missouri
been
the
alfalfa
an
intended
field
proposition he
shown,"
be
soil from
securing
the
upon
been
never
sown
was
so
secured
a
upon
grown
good ground.
His
not
can
make
The
alfalfa
by
his
out.
and
seed.
weeks
was
the
the
was
in
weeds
the
alfalfa
clipped with
where
you
soil and
the
of
1909,
kept
of
twenty
was
six
the
mower,
before
when
pounds
eight
in
ten
to
for
it
alfalfa
inches
more
was
worn-
August, 1908,
it had
the
acres
owned
land
ripened its
by frequent
down
June,
or
until
vetch
to
clay
cleared
been
farmed
planted
were
upon
has
been
May,
middle
rate
that
spoke of
vetch
on
field
has
and
under
The
at
chapter
This
stated, it
plowed
him
will inoculate
vetch
planted in June, 1909,
sixty years
until
sown
in his
brother.
As
taught
vigorously.
grow
author
of
also
manure,
procure
alfalfa
than
has
experience
acre.
in
tion
cultiva-
seed
In
was
four
height, and
clippings left lying
on
the
Ii8
ALFALFA
In
ground.
In
the
of
summer
of
cuttings
of
number
If
the
alfalfa
Cut
the
use
In
came
of
rate
when
fine
feed.
much
field
time.
yielded
pastured
was
by
it is in the
If
of
bushel
one
the
it is
barley
milk
and
is
season
that
the
of
plenty
to
as
April, provided
moisture
field
a
Good
eral
sev-
large
a
with
sown
the
acre.
it for
the
dry
moisture
to
cure
feed.
barley
alfalfa
young
sweet
season
of
will
plants
organic
alfalfa
after
the
but
the
farms
it is not
Alfalfa
that
will
of
large
will
so
will
not
The
crops
maintain
become
author's
necessary
build
so
of
the
corn
of
ground
plants
all
took
but
a
the
field,
and
in
plowed
seed
it
under
corn
of
is
a
alfalfa, but
to
up
can
use
and
be
fertilityof
by sowing
in the
latter
covered, and
well
was
way
secured
gathered
was
limestone
ground
vigorous growth
a
barley
been
been
have
in the
favorable
of
both
acre
low
had
matter
of
August,
use
one
was
author
plants all died
on
field
the
that
dry
secured
the
and
barley
alfalfa
young
dry, the
very
moisture.
the
corn
was
The
the
was
and
so
only
stands
of
was
portion of
held
part
it
was
deal
great
which
alfalfa
to
and
stand
that
and
191 1, which
fine, but
moisture
a
of
spring
up
few,
in
in
sown
barley
the
planted
the
yet
second
die.
will
a
be
so
up
and
this
1
191
is favorable
the
It makes
clipped the
was
and
1910
hay
season
at
it
hogs.
can
barley
weeks
five
the
moisture.
aid
great
in the
in
ing
secur-
majority
of
it.
restore
worn-out
upon
grown
average
soils
soils
them,
and
that
they
worn.
personal experience
with
this
plant
and
ALFALFA
his
his
every
found
matter
of
observation
him
leads
own,
on
what
to
is
It
farmer.
farm
every
the
it
what
season
119
the
urge
of
one
it
for
may
for
done
has
growing
the
never
be.
plants
fails
land
other
of
that
the
this
plant
should
farmer,
than
by
be
no
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CHAPTER
XII
SWEET
FEW
A
years
in
spread
feared
sprung
It
it would
become
our
orously
vig-
so
grew
that
rapidly
so
along
up
profusion.
great
and
and
plant
a
ago
roadsides
alarmed
CLOVER
farmers
came
be-
troublesome
a
weed.
Strange
cultivated
found
a
may
fields
noxious
soil, but
else
Thus
first, at
When
to
so
planted
again
grown
it
the
made
this
bottom
land
the
It
has
60
be
to
of
on
hausted
ex-
fairly
a
that
poor
despised
and
stone
in
clover.
top
to
75
reclaimed
soils
clay
fertile
whose
poorest.
supposed
so
was
ing
noth-
them.
of
so
and
died
soils
the
It
renovator
a
and
corner
poorest
that
waters
it.
plant
farms.
plant
be
on
invaded
thinnest
to
on
seldom
the
languished
them
out
on
that
chief
a
on
soon
high
the
grow
smothered
enrich
was
designed
clover
became
by
soil
would
last
away
of
luxuriantly
grew
sweet
and
came
spots
That
the
it
rich
was
scarcely
grew,
plant
the
weed,
soils.
rich
this
discovered
soon
was
seem,
or
where
only
It
it
as
that
It
soil
bushels
poor,
soil
where
ing
nothgrasses
been
known
been
of
at
tion.
restora-
other
has
had
rejected
washed
corn
was
much-washed
hillsides.
Years
ago
the
of
wreckage
123
a
Dutch
ship
was
cast
SWEET
124
the
upon
near
the
were
some
clover
the
south
it from
in
rich
wonderful
increased
and
island
and
of
the
of the
finest
highest prices
of
powers
from
abilityto gather
system
high
as
It
is
soil builder.
with
have
the
been
not
capacity
nitrogen
and
in its
matter
readily grow
soil builder
Any
grow
on
them
from
herein
the
be
author
air
root
any
and
has
and
root
mated
esti-
organic
secret
never
perimented
ex-
its merits
that
plant
that
has
large quantities
large quantity
a
of
of
organic
which
and
system,
soil, is
will
a
plant
whose
worth
so
poor
that
nothing
as
so
a
estimated.
possessing
should
soil great
lies its
alone
is satisfied
the
its
simply
acre.
because
produces
poor
cannot
one
and
plant, he
foliage and
on
the
to
while
draw
which
is
into the
store
mand
com-
Tasmania.
nitrogen-gathering
exaggerated,
to
of
matter
And
this
quality that
organic
producing plant,
a
dairy produce
quantities of
great
a
barren
its
tons
soil
brown
through
twenty
as
simply
matter
as
great
sand
horses.
produce
quantities of nitrogen, and
branch
and
once
soil builder
air and
the
and
markets
a
as
A
and
grades
island
and
dark
a
cattle
in the
plant
the
sand
fat
time
magical enriching
hundredfold.
a
of
shifting
cattle, sheep
white
sweet
fell upon
this
useless
its almost
exports
now
fine horses
The
of
its value
sand
the
for
grazing
with
course
of
of
wreckage
seed
in the
coast
island
an
This
and
the
plant by
made
has
powers
of
whole
the
stuffed
been
seed.
grew,
Island, located
King
Among
had
some
and
the
over
land
This
that
beaches
of
sand
Australia.
contained
transformed
a
of
coast
which
spread
beach
mattresses
sandy
to
white
raw,
CLOVER
lands
not
hesitate
to
give
sweet
will
clover
a
CLOVER
SWEET
trial.
Do
weed
not
and
In
building
the
fertility
the
furnish
the
ind
of
of
our
noxious
a
the
on
grow
rich
soils,
will
that
sweet
clover
has
written
the
in
lands
poor
the
the
and
up
bring
be
to
and
nitrogen
ing
soil-cover-
best
to
seems
keeping
must
we
gather
matter
and
and
soils
worn
organic
most
only
fairly
our
plants
material,
will
becoming
plant
it.
up
of
those
use
our
need
lands
these
It
farm.
the
on
the
about
worry
125
of
one
this
plants.
.
The
author
use
nitrogen
gather
of
only
of
road
organic
that
book
organic
those
chief
air
the
that
matter,
leads
upon
us
to
lack
and
we
soil
emphatic
more
our
of
that
then
restoration.
to
whenever
we
soils
great
getting
his
soils
worn-out
worn-out
produce
are
for
clover
sweet
on
and
matter,
plants,
from
make
to
the
that,
and
nitrogen
make
his
fact,
the
readers
is
of
edition
this
chapter
that
ties
quantion
the
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The
dollars
seed
lost
are
that
drouth
is tender
plant
young
every
starts
to
only
atmospheric
or
off
continuously
"
the
sick
clover
to
The
be
in
its
the
on
soils
of
from
effects
the
clover
of
rich
hay, though
jurious
in-
distressing and
without
pastured
ducing
pro-
the
that
producing
it refuses
to
make
to
attempt
be
cannot
without
which
upon
tinue
con-
it establish
clay, prairie gumbo
it is needed
of
fertility
the
land
sandy, compact
concedes
author
and
phosphorus
same
it spurns
soils,where
worn-out
the
clover
soils that
most.
is valuable
not
are
or
for
taining
main-
worn,
if used
alone
may
in
right manner.
clover
While
nitrogen
soil
from
the
to
several
If
soil loose
soil
it would
or
where
it had
and
draw
friable,
take
must
after
not,
made
ble
valua-
time,
a
its home
for
years.
all the
it had
regions
the
the
the
seed
ventilation,yet it
land
on
grow
and
hay
make
soil and
improve
elements
refuse
for
grown
into the
thus
and
in
"
and
grow,
its home
the
of
soil
the
robs
grown
purchase
Its
dust
a
of
millions
so
death-dealing bloat.
its
It
die
to
It cannot
animals.
to
the
changes.
feeding value, gives
in
in
year
grow
feeble,
and
greatest
virtues
where
number
claimed
longest
of
and
acres
for
used
mostly
of
worn
to
the
is it that
it,why
have
we
and
worn-out
soils ?
The
with
its
soils, where
of
$37
points the reader
author
clover
per
acres
lOO
acres
hay, and
acre,
in
1907
of
"
clover
in 1907
where
sold
produced
lands
for
sick
$5
that
per
great Volusia
"
and
two
sold
acre.
gion
re-
abandoned
small
in
stacks
1803
Lands
for
that
CLOVER
RED
abandoned
were
clover
and
the
other
were
lands.
because
plants and
Let
"
of
In
25^
from
acre
tons
the
three
total
of
and
sheep
further
He
they
yields of
in
growing
and
Another
of
kind
a
to
of
clover
methods
shows
Upon
crops
Some
abound
refuse
to
grow
buildings
are
of these
same
in
every
as
for
twenty
and
when
that
large
was
crop
culty
diffi-
no
region
to
where
"
well
was
the
to
of
refuses
farms
to
of
and
a
clover
crop
to
are
proper
of
the
of
amount
decay
the
influences
analysis
failure
fungous
any
lack
other
the
that
due
well, and
conditions
region
the
successful
clover
going
seasons
practice/'
there
sufficient
soils where
these
to
chemical
a
plant-food elements
to
nor
soil,or
a
The
is grown,
forth
soils,
is not
plant,
sold,
prosperous.
these
them
in the
that
were
of
says
on
and
character,
standard
that
farms
and
farms,
they brought
clover, and
per
than
in
Volusia
these
bushels
five
more
now
red
grow
of bacteria
methods
seed
kept.
past
clover
That
the
the
No
staple grains.
expert
clover
disease
of
cleared
all the
populated
the
the
rate
clover
team
support
sold.
was
by
first
were
not
four
a
the
at
produced
was
of
each
would
said
grain
for
hay
of
rate
ernment
Gov-
a
farms.
cutting,and
sheep, and
all crops
he grown
cannot
of
twenty
nothing
the
their
by
Volusia
clover
first
at
worth
this farm
on
the
growth
cows,
yield
grown
it
second
these
there
restore
said
was
grow
that
would
what
produced
for
acre
per
nearly $700
;
and
farm
this
1883
know
to
that
of
one
longer
no
seem
quote
about
expert
not
methods
author
the
would
they
did
owners
131
such
soil
the
by
mon
com-
growth."
grow,
other
being
doned,
aban-
ruin.
considerable
is grown.
extent
Then
if clover
is such
as
so
farmer
conditions
has
high
in
virtues
It
the
of
absence
of
claimed
Land
is
of
would
for
of
necessity
that
the
to
the
vast
should
fertilizing
is
'
sick
clover
exhausted
the
plant, which
of
handling
plant."
the
to
soon
ments
ele-
the
the
of
support
orous
vig-
or
this
in
only
and
crops,
soil necessary
grow
proper
farms
be
of
the
in the
refuse
not
'
succession
clover
the
its advocates.
by
becomes
element
some
there
do
every
with
our
tility
fer-
is, why
Almost
grown,
fertilityif
proper
a
growth
the
"
it
it, and
grow
long
fertilitynecessary
There
soils
to
so
of
plant
that
said
is
been
state
believe
us
soil
maintaining
enumerated?
attempts
or
quantities that
a
have
would
the
grows
show
plant for
great
a
many
have
we
the
CLOVER
RED
132
our
shows
plant with
profit.
Its
in
success
entire
is left
crop
from
extracts
the
from
the
and
use
of
on
grow
of
or
it is not
then
a
a
be
the
its
crop
a
it must
proper
crop
it
element
it
tracts
ex-
it produces
matter
covering.
success
as
If
a
does
cut
aid
used
rotation
in
in
if
at
cut
the
to
either
hay
the
building
the
to
made
be
for
the
tate
hesi-
not
first aid
under
plowed
be
he
it could
not
was
advocating
as
but
grown,
valuable
And
for
under,
element
organic
its
when
every
soil the
the
to
soils.
soils, and
its entire
soils.
with
be
can
soil
understood
be
worn-out
time, it would
worn-out
it
worn-out
seed, but
of
to
when
that
say
restoration
or
wishes
clover
to
atmosphere,
advantage
author
The
gives
plowed
or
the
to
attained
only
soil
the
again
it, and
is
building
upon
back
it returns
then
soil
same
for
proper
our
up
ner
man-
hay
or
RED
seed,
upon
from
the
To
'*
suitable
a
have
must
The
into
the
cornstalks,
few
a
into
this
clover
of
lands
these
of
crops
under,
on
the
the
organic
had
Organic
A
he
must
it with
vetch
it
manure
or
use
was
cornstalks
the
crops
the
use
of
matter
of
crops
that
part
put, but
only
plowed
were
of
use
clover
fertilizingcrop
clover
that
After
parts.
judicious
valuable
of
crop
fine
manured
it for
grow
allow
and
a
entire
And
them.
upon
and
corn,
again.
that
as
to
getting organic
condition
as
the
ghum
sor-
under
planted
under
been
vetch,
plowed
and
plowed
of
well
other
all
were
again
was
rye,
plow, and
no
judicious
of
and
vetch, sorghum
only
matter
growing
method
makes
matter
matter
and
farm
follow
organic
disc
growing
thinks
all the
vetch
as
of experiments
series
a
that
which
clover
pare
pre-
clover
that
lands
produced
upon
bacteria
to
to
clay
the
successful
farmer.
farmer
must
rye,
grew
The
been
matter
food
and
the
clover
worn-out
in such
was
"
of
cause
organic
soil
manure,
and
is of
growth.
rye
this
soil it
have
the
a
to
rye
of
years
for
by
of
use
again planted
and
ventilation
lands.
possible with
as
soil
ago
lands
these
and
necessary
ble
vegeta-
author
the
the
some
these
The
of
have
must
we
secret
watching
Years
of
out
been
on
sick."
farmed
of
has
conducted
clover
deep
home
them
save
soils.
soil.
its successful
for
author
being
put
necessary
would
we
clover
the
lies the
soils, they lack
the
of
in
matter
"
sick
clover
133
if
farms,
growth
herein
that
produce
"
"
of
doom
organic
opinion
sick
fertile
our
get the best
or
CLOVER
means
hay
or
will
other
that
either
if the
then
seed,
to
he
produce
organic
matter
CLOVER
RED
134
plants,
producing
The
powerful
most
clover
to
crop
this
In
allow
it
lying
will
for
may
allow
one
it under
plow
dry
two
methods
the
soil
additional
method
then
it, leaving
come
for
the
effects
is
up
it will
in
it
handling
the
that
to
that
so
plowing
of
cut
crop
crop
great
effective
second
the
before
d^cay
these
bloom
second
the
cut
enrich
so
matter
is to
the
get
full
ground
to
of
Either
then
Another
into
come
the
time
some
would
covering.
it, then
through
clover
use
and
die
you
soil
on
organic
spring.
it to
to
and
manner
of
benefits
to
way
grow
following
the
of
supply
a
soil.
his
for
secured
be
that
so
have
wheat.
clover
will
crop
for
linger
years.
after
who,
clover
clover
to
field
the
become
was
so
years
the
that
he
for
black
enriched
would
must
restore
it
follow
or
will
Nature's
up
the
found
that
nearly
large
is
but
way
allowed
years.
of
produced
it, and
a
of
the
When
the
soil
foot,
a
for
crops
and
many
lesson
valuable
learn
poor
Nature
to
several
was
depth
if he
keep
of
his
back
of
stand
a
of
one
field
for
it
herein
And
farmer
American
the
that
afterwards.
man
itself
getting
of
the
out
finally plowed
was
had
stock
his
reseed
and
grow
turned
then
all
kept
it were,
in
soil
colored
light
and
fields
worn-out
as
the
upon
farmer
Pennsylvania
a
succeeded
effort,
great
of
given
is
illustration
An
it.
The
soil
building
fertility of
the
for
lesson,
soil.
if
Q^
Oh
"
tc
X
tJD
2:
O
a
U
i
o
o
I"
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I
C3
.
"
RESTORING
138
soil
in
the
spring
crop
ought
have
been
be
to
removed
the
after
to
the
peas
should
early
peas.
by June
15.
10.
were
harvested, he
disced
and
planted
cultivated
and
early
as
June
well
be
it
plow
to
remove
thoroughly
crop
would
plant
early as
as
ground
This
corn.
ready
SOILS
; then
possible and
as
Immediately
of
ditched
thoroughly
was
have
WORN-OUT
The
They
would
to
sugar
kept clear
weeds.
If
soil
the
from
receive
only
enough
money
started
on
the
in
Early
either
the
to
it is
worn
pay
of
crop
of
soil
would
you
and
peas
but
expenses,
road
probable
corn
sugar
would
you
restoration, and
be
that
well
start
made.
be
must
much
was
he
August
vetch
would
His
rye.
or
in
plant
the
would
preference
corn
sugar
be
vetch
always.
Under
sweet
in
but
the
the
In
he
with
the
of
spring
soon
sow
He
next
rye
do
for
let
not
alone
of
this
engaged
are
you
greed get
for
to
when
or
rye
as
not
vetch
field
same
plowing
the
and
plant again
giving
In
this
the
case
about
the
thorough
same
plowed
was
May
last
time,
he
would
be
pastured,
as
vetch.
allow
the
following spring
and
corn,
of
ist
stalks, and
and
vetch.
the
about
season,
the
plant
to
would
of
under
plow
sow
that
stalks
value
great
stalks
the
the
pasture
vetch.
the
May
of
are
building, so
Leave
cultivation, and
would
soil
hand.
would
loth
of
he
remember
must
you
business
upper
under
although they
corn,
purpose,
would
circumstances
no
to
field
corn
would
corn.
or
rye
plow
Both
to
the
these
whole
crops
under
of
field
WORN-OUT
RESTORING
he
corn
surprise of
the
on
planted
do
first
your
but
garian,
planting
these
their
vetch; the author's
The
the
or
The
will
work
from
grandly,
50
to
wish
you
and
plow
he
the
has
author
of
plant
plowed
and
field corn,
to
and
up
vetch
to
in
put
clover, the
of
method
tried
clover
soil
building
it.
in two
can
the
to
corn
a
alfalfa
start
seasons
acre
grow
most
on
with
sweet
under
any
before
ground,
and
or
and
six
to
sow
inches
or
allow
to
directed
as
peas
until
of
alfalfa.
seed, and
the
middle
Clip
it
to
winter
grow
the
if
of
July
the
growth
first
stock
off
vetch; keep
ripening
soil,
worn
high, leaving clippings
clip again before
considerable,
clipping.
ground
you.
piece of
a
on
and
corn
vetch
August
five
will astonish
canning factory, sow
cultivating your
first of
be
be
or
rye
vetch.
planted either
be
this
soils results
to
near
follow
when
for
bushels
100
fairlygood
and
keep
before
to
sown
be
and
up
under
soils.
live
and
be
hun-
or
cowpeas
soil
would
wheat
that
this method
worn-out
If
with
soil could
turned
the
to
season
knows
author
With
On
be
to
along
canning factory,
a
either
be
should
time
well
under.
plowed
be
next
followed
be
to
corn,
the
and
the
corn
vicinityof
preference
be
the
clover.
seed, and
laying-by
at
rye,
to
with
and
soil.
field
following spring plow
same
would
you
139
surprise
your
your
could
crops
of
ripening
and
of
crop
live in the
not
to
building up
wheat, followed
to
If you
the
of
second
the
produce
neighbors,
your
highway
After
then
would
knows
SOILS
season
or
alfalfa
on
the
should
out
with-
If
do
you
disc
then
under
plow
the
seed, which
July
case
but
lose
in the
you
get your
If
author
the
farm, alfalfa
regards
alone
is
The
no
the
the
the
of
of
better.
If
seed,
alfalfa.
Hungarian
lose
you
than
more
a
you
which
in
condition
the
falfa
al-
middle
alfalfa
your
gain
Keep
sow
allow
that
soil
should
fine
Hay, which,
hay
that
vetch
your
stated,
as
be
can
be
is when
in
planted
the
on
grown
alfalfa
successful
stated
you
manner
that
it is
is
a
growing.
great
only
starting a
are
pact,
com-
see.
There
idle.
the
perplexities of
it ; try it and
elsewhere
to
cut
excepted.
about
soils
and
of
soils to
Has
Hungarian,
you
through
way
doubt
author
to
to
the
crop
; you
cases,
its seed.
and
best
and
non-inoculated
There
the
as
Hungarian
blaze
stated
poor
quantity
vast
a
the
Peas,
and
soil.
soil is not
your
and
and
gain
above
from
sowing
do
the
earlier
your
you
suppose
fertility
you
will get
you
under
plow
formed,
ready
the
August,
fairly rich,
has
ripens
time
splendid stand
a
of
are
selecting and
you
year's crop,
it
any
before
vetch.
either
you
be
may
in
care
will obtain
In
until
first of
the
to
use
you
in
seed
as
to
sow
before
vetch
cultivated
ground
you
and
thoroughly
if soil is
But
hay just
under
plow
worn,
vetch.
following spring,
The
the
for
garian,
Hun-
canning factory, sow
a
is much
to
sow
Hungarian
the
near
ground
ripens and
seed
cut
live
not
if
and
SOILS
WORN-OUT
RESTORING
I40
one
blue
take
misception,
ex-
grass
pasture.
The
intended
Field
either
corn,
for
after
ever
be
occupied
grain, feeding
it is laid
or
in
growing
plowing
by, ought always
a
crop
under.
to
be
sown
RESTORING
vetch,
with
in
If
next
wheat
should
is to
disced
and
in
the
soil
tillage,
with
is
be
to
corn,
the
after
wheat
immediately
vetch
to
put
or
the
rye,
same
is
be
to
same
spring.
this
following
By
field
same
followed
be
broken
or
sown
under
plowed
if
even
141
season.
ground
be
removed
clover,
or
rye
the
corn
SOILS
WORN-OUT
plan
and
covering,
the
gain
you
organic
getting
of
advantage
in
matter
the
soil.
The
author's
"
Farm
He
has
and
pastured
corn
banished
laid
and
under
every
cornstalk
from
above
has
manure,
produces
author
weed
so
bumper
wishes
has
he
that
also
farm
"
restored
crops
to
grow
the
of
corn,
upon
or
soil
soil
of
has
alfalfa
and
and
covering
this
every
with
and
farm
and
hun-
plowed
supplemented
potatoes
it.
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and
cultivation
this,
after
spring
under
match
be
to
rye
vetch.
grown
the
manuring,
green
fields
plowed
spared
escaped
the
on
of
abundance
all
has
ter.
mat-
following
and
and
year
organic
vetch
to
rye
every
corn
the
farm
the
He
his
then
cornstalks,
hay.
grown
and
of
crops
them
Vetchfalfa
and
each
of
any
sown
by,
the
for
garian
the
always
timothy
hungarian
an
has
has
large
allowed
never
under
he
that
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his
restoring
under
plowed
was
plowed
fact
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lies
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secret
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146
bushels
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is
consumption
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that
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the
than
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supply,
the
or
of
the
price
price of
for
world
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to
for
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of
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so
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corn
not
is
corn
danger
any
demand
corn
large.
are
corn
seem
fact, the
In
overproduction.
not
yet the
of
uses
capacity
does
and
corn,
the
that
high, showing
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of
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high
so
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as
now.
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of
account
bushels
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corn
crop
enthusiastic
the
the
over
yield
greater
of
increasing
then
farm,
the
fertility,
average
it should.
as
money-making
best
farmers
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that
will
have
shown
method
any
become
bring
about
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acre.
per
preceding
process
in
losing
easiest, cheapest and
on
grown
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is not
acre
per
soils
our
soil
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chapters
building
and
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the
original
of
methods
best
soil
restoration.
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of
soil
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of
methods
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right
I
building
detailed
have
and
real, practical, cheap
are
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the
soil
condition
farmer.
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to
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grow
at
will
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put
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of
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corn
acre.
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of
foundation
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by
with
avoided
assume
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no
if
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crop,
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is enormous,
have
good
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crop.
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only thing
must
in any
important
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crop.
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it
loss
all be
can
care.
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corn
seed
poor
a
prepared
large
a
selection
occasioned
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a
produce
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seed.
soil well
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prove
on
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seed,
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seeds
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be
to
but
entire
the
his
of
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dishonest
many
that
under
present
of
has
law
seeds
loss
long
seeds
drastic
a
are
dishonest
suffers
grower
growing
own
dollars, and
There
upon,
his
growing
ought
imposed
is often
dealer
for
of
and
seeds.
with
dealing
persons
there
147
year
purchase
that
him
persuaded
every
thousands
to
the
in
experience
the
purchases
author
CORN
the
honest
methods
unreliable
poor,
seeds.
his
grow
that
is
reliable
cultivating the
are
stalks
this time
and
; but
ears
and
for.
seed
by noticing
as
to
chase,
pur-
It is said
is while
corn
the
most
usually
are
we
to
houses.
cared
this, the practical time
do
to
and
persons
corn,
should
it is necessary
begin selecting
to
farmer
the
so,
When
easily grow^n
so
time
best
do
to
crop.
with
only
corn
the
you
seed
own
deal
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possible
it is
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ising
prom-
busy
too
is
select
at
ing
husk-
at
time.
selecting seed
In
noticed.
first
medium
height
and
stalks
the
corn,
should
be
The
ear
from
the
ground,
cover
the
and
should,
husks
on
the
the
ear
stalk
be
at
a
bend
should
downward.
husks
The
rules
that
"
should
for
can
be
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ear
given
should
circumference
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fourths
"
than
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16
of
rows
nor
seed
selecting good
the
more
are
corn
as
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good
ing
followas
any
:
full and
be
in the
length
of
entirely.
ear
of
the
kernels
than
middle
should
in
middle
be
about
portion.
three-
ear.
should
22
strong
be
in number.
straight,and
not
less
KING
148
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length of
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ear
in
cob
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yellow
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corn
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cob
inches.
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corn
disqualifies.
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medium
so
of
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size.
leave
to
as
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kernels
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be
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would
in
firm
should
it be
unless
dry place,
time
the
and
nearly straight,
between
rows
regular
make
shape
side
out-
on
and
be
never
ventilation
method
of
practical and
so
tips
and
fairlydeep,
the
size.
vitality."
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freezing
to
should
be
put
perfect.
seed
that
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them
quote
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given
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corn,
of
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chaffy.
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gathering
Agricultural Experiment
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and
thoroughly dry,
where
of
the
crown
sound.
and
developed, indicating strong
weather
by
be
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uniform
be
corn
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it is broad
as
edges.
or
which
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ear
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a
should
space
no
sides
on
should
well
in
slightcrease
be
pinched,
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be
a
disqualifies.
long
as
edges
indentation
Kernel
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twice
be
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only
kernels, either
but
kernels
ear.
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foreign
more
kernel
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of
or
full:
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get the best
To
field
after
the
parent
the
best
is
corn
and
stalk
are
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matured
be
can
it should
corn
and
while
observed.
of
ears
laboratory
good
and
strong
should
before
and
mature
be
of
a
the
size and
the
the
leaf
plant
be
can
harvest
general
quality from
the
of
done
field after
but
development.
where
in the
characters
the
vigorous looking,
large
selected
be
This
advantage by going through
picking
that
the
it has
seed
food
the
the
begins
stalks
not
coarse.
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leaf
it
to
gathers
is
is
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manufactured.
the
at
strong
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stalk
base
and
up
well
stand
height for
husking.
length and
strength.
while
erect,
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should
of
be
sized
regular
dented.
deeply
and
be
always
the
the
run
squarely
sharp
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or
weak
in
will
the
the
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too
far.
more
selected
ears
straight rows
be
rather
low
generally shal-
are
seed
should
ears
of
average
smoother
the
crop,
each
year
dent, however,
kernel, and
sides
be-
storm,
should
The
become
it wanted,
be
never
kernel
there
should
should
has
and
not
well
has
had
ripen the seed
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The
injured, and,
appearance,
stalks
own
corn
be
no
one
which
can
the
tell
store
be
more
the
mature.
up
all
less
or
preserved,
yield
but
its
will
be
should
be
allowed
crib
tionable.
always objec-
to
way.
from
vitalityhas
while
to
conditions,
and
Nature
it is
if well
favorable
lessened.
seed
will
corn,
weakened,
in her
time
consequently
under
been
before
picked
vitality. Early picked
correspondingly
the
than
rougher
should
corn
constitution
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kernels
well.
shallower.
germinate
may
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too
pointed margins.
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food
husk.
ear
are
wind
a
kernels
so
the
stalk
during
The
medium
over
developed, with
smoother
across
immature
the
well
variety
kernels
and
to
of
be
the
tassel.
convenient
a
hang
on
size,
the
to
holds
it to
up
stalk
produce
little
a
otherwise
high
kernels.
will not
shank
allows
the
The
medium
at
ears
should
short
A
and
strong
its
bear
inconvenient
being
of
be
shank
or
down
likely to pull
and
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shanks
long
on
should
tapering gradually
shank
long
a
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ears
the
generally
produced
been
selected
nothing
them.
as
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may
to
more
or
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the
Numerous
character
less
good
of
experi-
have
ments
than
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properly
good plan
of
found
the
When
place in
All
seed
corn
importance
of
farmers
per
cent,
not
be
do
of
less than
95
planted it is generally
if the
in
corn
is poor,
stand
missing
hills to
of
method
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and
the
After
corn
I have
make
as
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are
germination
tested
the
testing of
not
the
should
ear
ear
be
from
of
a
which
all
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the
w^ill
ear
be
from
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used
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came
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each
for
ear
must
seed.
and
fodder.
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follows
should
that
as
in such
be
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whether
kept separate,
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a
from
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making
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safely determine
field
replanted
is
shown
at
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entire
than
of
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should
once
the
more
methods
picked
kernels
of
average
Station
have
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erally
gen-
average
given by
cases
Experiments
should
taken
in
but
test,
by itself.
parts
simple
many
that
known
never
anything
seed
from
planting.
replant
to
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ears
and
ear
an
when
late
testing
side
out-
seed
consider
than
cent.
too
the
to
early variety.
we
more
corn,
per
seed
insufficient,it
is
before
when
get
of
and
of
quantity
the
on
an
tested
seen
not
stand
a
get it
be
is
needed
be
desirable
latitude, and
this
field
further
for
attached
box
the
will
room
which
corn,
should
field and
put."
be
can
same
your
than
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on.
into
seed
buy
you
from
be
small
a
box
husking
selected
general husking
have
to
in the
more
may
later
the
wagon
while
corn
there
before
selected
a
seed
that
selected
yields
winter.
the
selection
critical
corn
considerably
be
planting, so
ears
a
been
of
quantity
always
more
is
crib
preserved through
should
for
has
that
smaller
produces
that
shown
corn
well
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or
kernels
and
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the
way
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it
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selectingthe
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one
spots
on
there
are
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the
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because
air.
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provided
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ordinary
dinner
muslin
another
very
good
box
kernels
the
too
containing
the
living room
colder
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having
in
be
may
seed
your
previous
a
breaking
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a
degrees during
been
soil built
in the
chapters, the
the
seed
of
the
in which
the
In
any
but
not
ordinary-
it does
not
come
be-
night."
and
tested, and
I have
manner
next
A
do.
place,
warm
that
folds
between
handy.
be
a
into
box
sawdust
saved
properly
up
moistened
lid will
a
temperature
than
has
An
laid, covered
laid
or
right,provided
55
method
shallow
also
in
of
be
be
earth
put
be
can
exact
fold
with
may
these
convenience.
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is about
previous
up
be
stove.
preparation of the
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moist
rest
rapid drying, makes
may
covered
planted
should
tester
near
and
paper
the
being injured.
can
too
kernels
on
probably
after
which
of
chamber.
germinating
If
found
be
was
The
kernels
prevent
lots of
in
double
a
swollen
moisture, warmth
are
matter
a
the
to
of
and
kernels.
moisture
danger
the
near
or
the
cob
purpose.
plate with
plate
moistened
case
largely
which
several
shallow
the
be
between
with
the
the
vessel
or
answer
will
of
of
out
chamber
employed
which
there
In
portion,
likelyto
requisites for germination
The
and
and
dry
middle
elevated
are
retained
and
less spongy
from
take
to
is made.
test
one
the
for
they
spots,
was
of
which
germs,
the
test, take
parts
weak
any
ear
the
from
ear
after
tip. Look
the
the
or
of
for
various
near
swollen
more
readily located
be
can
151
detailed
is
the
importance
of
important
step
bed.
chapter
soil at the
I
showed
right time,
the
and
assuming
that
properly, the
is done
that
to
level
nearly
as
The
worked
be
down
plowing.
with
half-day's plowing
level, well-pulverized surface
A
essential
moisture, both
retains
and
heat
each
over
run
good pulverizer.
absorbs
should
same
possible immediately after
as
is to
plan
best
some
good
to
growth.
corn
soil
to
soil is
pulverizer
all
hurry
would
over
for
a
us
for
the
and
in
good
and
at
a
of
bed
conducive
checked
so
the
of
stand
better
belt the
step
is
best
time
]\Iay. As
before
before
part
i
of
In
as
com
to
times,
were
of
with
run
ease
placed
be
dition
con-
every
securing
thus
would
size.
any
next
of
the
cannot
is
part
be
the
and
warmth.
and
may
be
portant
imcorn
loth
and
with
done
early
planting
ist
be
reach
to
condition, the
the
pay
level, mellow
chance
main
we
than
weeds
a
dryness
belt
dozen
by
have
the
spring
the
If
would
of
plant is between
to
unless
the
seed
in proper
bed
planting.
condition
be
We
bed.
more
be
growth
they
rule, planting
a
May
excellent
south
seed
the
would
the
would
corn
cultivatingstage
Having
The
corn.
the
that
a
quick, healthy growth,
to
the
running
earth, surrounded
moist
warm,
fields
soil would
depth, and
uniform
before
drag
or
seed
planter could
The
tilth.
plowed
been
by
the
our
over
Our
spent.
heavy
a
opposite directions.
planting, it
before
time
lost
preparing
pulverizer
week
or
in
much
the
in
fields
has
roller
a
is
time
where
or
matter
of
use
No
your
too
run
a
the
advise
the
pulverize
inches.
organic
or
pulverizer.
a
will
plowing time,
at
crops
I would
under,
that
used
be
least three
at
dry
of green
coating
using
of
depth
a
Where
in
should
pulverizer
A
a
CORN
KING
152
of
safety
soil is in
In
earlier.
the
It
KING
154
first
joint, about
grain
formed
joint-forming
new
until the
Heretofore
fact
the
things,
of
study
that
nature
planting
to
planting
A
farm.
Get
the
ones
to
all poor
selecting seed
In
seed
through
using
in
Extra
grains
seed
or
to
two
two
the
your
Between
to
furrow
a
doing
crosses
is
student
of
planted
to
true,
and
then
the
fillingthe
depth is
proper
good
a
plant the seed.
the
can
be
nuisance
worst
and
procured,
the
on
consign
heap.
scrap
tips and
discard
corn
so
same
is of
be
and
butts
run
size before
uniform
planter should
for
set
planting
hill.
soil will
mature
three
I
found
that
grains
hill ; but
in
to
have
the
hill it is very
important
stand
poor.
may
planting
weeks.
any
If this be
about
all conditions
only plant
which
its seed
the
corn
that
The
the
to
strong
under
but
the
grader
planter.
grains
two
a
of
is wrong.
best
the
plant
readers
ways
convince
when
in
planter is
corn
poor
will
corn
which
planter w4th
the
my
that
doing
inch.
one
cultivation
This
penalty.
injured
by
Next
the
growth
is
of
upon
Nature's
avoid
pay
corn
face),
sur-
grow.
growth
impress
to
study
may
we
corn
practice of
corn
tried
depth than
greater
furrow
do
we
the
formed.
should
w^e
the
to
be
must
under
begin
roots
stays
process
joint
formed
never
the
Plant
grain.
unnatural
brace
have
we
that
her, for if
A
I
that
so
(it is
joint is
new
and
the
the
above
new
which
from
a
a
surface
the
at
inch
an
deep,
too
CORN
and
be
grains
that
cultivating there
Sometimes,
on
account
to
the
hill,
it is best
planting
you
have
elapses
of
to
two
good
erally
gen-
rains, this
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time
and
wet
work
We
must
soil
moisture
to
this
prevents
An
insufficient
for
cause
which
will
absorb
it.
A
will
of
crop
of
of
corn
It
from
the
kill
the
or
before
the
will
to
pulverizer
corn
sprout
soil
or
of
to
so
should
has
soil,
procure
be
run
pushed
and
its
mulch.
it,
so
and
vating
culti-
oration
evap-
stirring
soil
the
way
the
earlier
the
moisture
this
over
will
soil
a
in
all
that
cultivation.
mulch
stop
the
like
planting
practically
great
a
doing
without
between
soil
roots
corn
grown
create
surface
weeds,
be
cannot
is
corn
soil
the
air.
of
of
secret
great
growing,
time.
the
time.
loose
the
the
to
causes
moisture
so
in
this
A
importance
the
moisture
the
beginning
corn
harrow
soil.
is
from
available
moisture
mulch
necessity
stage
the
conserves
soil
large
hence
crops,
conserve
Nothing
of
possible
soil
the
rapidly.
moisture
absorbs
is
rally
natu-
are
during
on
very
quantity
short
crust
a
it
idle
be
evaporate
and
soils
our
When
not
that
forget
not
if
drained.
should
we
155
especially
well
not
soil
the
This
extended,
be
may
CORN
the
mulch
planted
through
soil
the
corn
the
"WELL!
I
WONDER
WHICH
IS
THE
BEST
SEED
EAR."
CHAPTER
CULTURE
THE
CORN
when
is
root
is collected
hence
about
them
their
of
the
corn
the
yield
in
Eminent
three
bushels
to
the
of
that
six
to
cultivation
deep
that
would
to
roots
from
inches
and
ting
put-
their
best
four
have
pruned
to
and
tearing
hill,
destroyed.
deep,
ments
experi-
by
of
depth
the
the
cut
reduces
and
roots
culture
of
portion
any
of
inches
perform
can
plant,
corn
the
and
acre,
bushels
twenty
As
roots,
undisturbed.
destroys
amount
corn
they
so
food
the
the
corn
cultivation
second
we
to
food
yield
eighteen
six
els
bush-
acre.
Cultivating
the
its
roots
corn
corn
its
as
through
essential
that
to
professors
the
to
the
plant
cultivation
to
inches,
it
to
protected
be
proportion
proven
fed
ment
developThe
plant,
corn
environments
is disastrous
roots
the
and
collecting
of
method
cultivated.
protecting
must
functions
of
of
stage
growth.
roots
corn
Any
of
highest
properly
soil
the
and
development
The
the
necessity
the
its
mouth
the
from
is
it
CORN
OF
reach
only
can
XVI
secure
the
two
will
to
the
destroys
the
first
off
decrease
acre;
the
highest
roots
and
cultivations,
159
the
corn
roots
after
the
yield
from
three
any
so
must
best
corn
method
be
of
corn
abandoned
yield.
may
be
cultivated
if
CULTURE
THE
i6o
one
two
or
Corn
that
inches
in
the
season
water
the
through
cells of
the
and
the
system
the
the
plant needs
It is said
that
the
leaves
soil will
throw
the
cover
ground
if
This,
if
we
learn
and
That
will
of
system
only
of
We
must
of
roots,
small
the
tfie
it into
an
acre
would
that
the
conserve
This
culture, and
corn
one
is the
must
we
each
be
not
must
able
avail-
be
of the
day
and
and
They
never
soil moisture
preserve
growth
allowed
and
stirringthe ground
so
as
keep in mind
and
it may
that
so
which
adopted
to
ground.
tender, and
stalk.
be
must
moisture
keep
feeding
surface
culture
finely pulverized
ever
and
the
corn.
inches,
direction
of
that
successfully grow
to
is to
two
or
blanket
into
on
water
must
The
the
way
evaporation
one
passes
inches.
ten
quantitiesduring
from
evaporate
of
plant
corn
we
of
water
of
growth.
season
soil moisture
plant.
corn
The
the
a
prove
corn
the
conserve
the
weight
own
ing
grow-
appreciate.
in sufficient
of
during
feature
important
most
of
depth of
a
would
true
soil moisture
to
its
is carried
in its
they
the
sunlight transforms
that
off
food
and
During
this
as
corn
material
of
exceed
not
moisture,
surface.
again,
over
leaves, where
the
should
plant will absorb
corn
corn
of
plenty
the
near
and
over
cultivation
the
have
moisture
CORN
depth.
must
roots
this
seek
after
but
deeply,
OF
to
that
bracing.
run
when
out
on
has
corn
The
from
penetrate
but
to
the
but
feeding
exceed
a
few
the
depth
two
sets
roots
are
the
inches
depth
or
ground.
plant in
the
full grown
first appear
of
top
the
soil mulch
the
procure
soil
to
prevent
at
a
rizontal
ho-
height
below
which
in
asked
free
entirely
the
When
deep
All
kept
and
When
the
Good
of
and
I
once
with
increased
and
half
the
The
dry
crisis
begins
moisture
the
critical
begins
proper
time
of
the
combined
is
when
and
and
it
soil
has
late
a
becomes
maturity
of
the
cultivators
If
and
ear
should
per
at
this
compact
so
be
cut
kept
corn
has
late
vations
culti-
cultivator,
acre
over
its
stalk
time
the
and
dry
favorable
conditions
are
of
lack
repaired.
completed
ear.
excluded,
of
two
corn
bushels
ten
is
the
scratches
by
be
cannot
harrow
the
making
short
growth
of
field
a
air
and
two-horse
barely
cut
done
damage
yield nearly
corn's
be
to
When
one-horse
cultivated.
season
that
the
the
ity.
matur-
with
that
soil
frequent
towards
along
can.
the
be
to
way
you
stirs
as
early starting
an
yields
not
and
growth
a
as
corn
cultivate
to
each
cultivators.
one-half
gave
no
used.
means
corn
stunted
once
always
yields
corn
cultivation
large
cultivation.
late
the
such
be
cultivator
the
fine
the
to
is well
corn
frequently
known
have
been
the
culture
corn
early
the
be
discontinuance
I
inch,
is too
should
soil
an
is
corn
plow
close
as
his
gather
to
be.
large enough
one-horse
a
produces
must
corn
cultivators,
and
this
until
up
farmer's
after
of
depth
intended
this
may
possible getting
as
the
season
is
corn
cultivation
to
weeds
the
dry
CORN
if he
But
from
how
matter
as
weeder.
a
OF
derision
spirit of
a
with
corn
to
CULTURE
THE
i62
short.
At
moving.
this
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CHAPTER
XVII
SWEET
SWEET
is
corn
food,
boil
it
regarded
as
States
dozen
sweet
fodder
entirely
that
in
value
horses
in
good
horses
and
the
grown,
milk.
Where
sweet
acre.
acres
forage
corn
As
feed
will
It
a
refined
most
industry
and
of
of
the
it, their
of
cases,
two
all
stock,
on
the
farm.
feed
for
winter
It
It
be
entirely
season,
coming
out
is
of
best
one
is
even
claim
of
quantities
is
dairying
fodder
the
carried
considered
worth
that
more
grown.
i6s
on
acre
than
the
Stock
it
horses
and
keeps
and
overfed,
subsist
in
the
it
upon
in
spring
milk-producing
well-tasting
to
worth
one
of
one
puts
cannot
for
cured
properly
grown.
almost
producing
and
for
grown
condition.
winter
grass,
crop
be
any
cattle
Some
of
it
it is
manner
million
and
up
feed
it.
condition.
feeds
cut
can
consume
excels
fine
cooking
quantities
six
over
valuable
a
valuable
through
the
great
plant
corn
makes
most
this
upon
each.
cans
The
in
canning
great
being
of
way
of
courses
human
consumed
are
served
consumes
pack
it
of
"
the
for
entirely
favorite
and
The
also
yearly
average
will
of
one
almost
A
cob,
dishes."
epicurean
United
tables.
the
on
used
quantities
vast
dining
our
is to
so
CORN
a
ten
is
two
large
extent
dollars
equal
acres
rich
to
of
per
eight
any
Sweet
and
of
requires the
as
growth
field
While
sweetest
is smaller
and
are
than
field
It
similar.
are
cultivation
to
grow
Evergreen
and
valuable
him
comes
than
corn
the
and
sells for
the
large
ears,
all.
The
leaders.
it is the
author's
canning
for
is grown.
that
variety
Gentlemen
the
most
has
the
right
perfect
a
it is
While
the
has
variety
tion
reputa-
yet Stowell's
money,
right stage
large
purposes
fillingthe requirements
the
at
being
Country
in
Country
plucked
of
green,
Ever-
and
variety gathered
this
any
that
has
it for
with
that
nearer
Stowell's
are
last named
first and
varieties
The
many.
Crosby's Early
Evergreen,
most
are
purposes
Stowell's
convinced
be
canning
long experience
true
curing.
corn
its varieties
for
the
Gentlemen,
sweet
for
leaves
corn.
Early
stage
when
soil,attention
same
chiefly grown
and
shocks
the
cut
its characteristics
field corn,
Like
be
sweet
otherwise
but
corn,
should
in small
put
habit
In
fodder
corn
glazing
it
CORN
SWEET
i66
has
flavor
a
green
Ever-
that
cannot
excelled.
In
May
the
avoided,
sweet
July
to
I
should
main
as
never
the
nine
in
Planting
i.
seed
will
exceed
previous chapter,
belt
corn
a
times
of
soils
As
sweet
too
from
planted
planting
depth.
to
ten
cold
wet,
of
stand
poor
out
in
be
can
The
rot.
inch
an
it
of
must
be
the
seed
stated
corn
in the
be
can
tributed
at-
deep planting of the
seed.
The
seed
moisture
in
when
to
have
must
germinate
securing
ground
is
a
warm
just the right amount
it
stand
and
properly, yet
if
not
there
is careful
one
too
wet.
of
in
is
heat
no
and
culty
diffi-
planting
it
SWEET
There
thick.
too
seed
Good
less than
and
it
ought
sweet
the
factory
a
a
system
is taken
paid
from
each
when
bought by
fit for
for
The
ten-dollar
number
a
certain
shucked
just
ton
eight
dollars
growing
it,as
which
it will
to
you
have
one
of
the
most
If it does
not
prove
planted
neglected.
on
a
their
It will
chance.
cultivation
maker.
respond
The
poorest,
and
He
a
worst
then
knew
value
or
and
produce
has
drained
curse
one
and
weighed,
but
this
the
smaller
not
duce
pro-
green,
Ever-
is
price there
from
the
four
six
and
the
on
grown
fine
to
fodder
it is because
its cultivation
has
been
paying
crops
farmers
known
in
jerked
Stowell's
of
a
highest price
profitable crop
soil
author
which
do
profitable crops
poor
on
at
produce
the
add
acre,
been
and
ton,
per
tories
fac-
it is
as
acre.
per
Some
standard,
price is paid for
tons
ton
to
and
fixed
yielding varieties, like
heavy
in
it
work
per
testing by
or
The
given
this,
delivered
canning.
and
the
dollars
ten
of
if
tests
do
to
other
stalk, and
load
to
up
per
money
the
grading
tons
no
spring
five to
stage
of
come
large
farm.
it
seed, picking
It pays
which
is
it has
the
variety like Country Gentlemen,
money
to
drill
set
; where
picking
of
days
it is
field.
a
be
never
drilled
cent.
per
grains.
from
green
from
must
generally
eared
when
hand
best
pay
in
have
the
95
advise
jerked
corn
it
test
to
factories
for
when
should
corn
done.
Canning
bushel
sweet
apart.
in bad
done
plant
to
There
hill,and
a
brightest and
be
can
be
cannot
to
this I would
the
out
mistake.
foot
one
167
disposition
a
a
grains
about
drop
to
is
This
three
exceed
be
to
seems
CORN
to
put
soil, give it practically
condemn
farmer
who
it
as
a
non-
planted five
and
acres
himself
there
that
when
is in the
grain
It
heats
and
it
into
Sweet
ear
at
to
be
the
the
crop,
While
it is
be
while
the
the
spread
of the
pile and
tories
fac-
that
cement
on
thin
out
it
night
it is true
it
is
vested.
har-
day
over
wagon
eating
grain
the
night, yet they put
interior
sweet
an
of
a
for
grown
work
the
that
so
where
there
the
before
appearance
past, and
factories.
to
put
It
purposes
the
a
should
season
never
was
stop
appears
that
reason
be
to
to
a
to
its
in
all
in
grown
be
cannot
with
by
profit,
the
worm
product.
this
worm
appears
to
than
more
further
later
make
corn
than
extent
for
its
one-half
operations
considerable
sweet
planted
cotton
grown
river
known
been
the
corn
damaged
section
which
corn
Ohio
finished
it has
complete
For
sweet
the
and
extent
some
sweet
corn
the
to
the
always
planting.
in
in
damage
by canning factories
but
season,
to
the
growing
corn
year,
destroys
reason
parallel with
expense
sweet
the
this
For
found
serious
does
is found
removing
much
too
in
of
the
that
which
handled
or
of
chiefly found
it is
line
worm
seasons
worm
latitude.
south
in the
worm
same
this
corn,
warmer
enemy
Bollworm,
While
ears.
late
valueless.
certain
the
is said
late
and
factory
in the
the
has
corn
of
In
the
must
for
value
no
yellow
stand
the
over
to
it.
danger of its heating.
no
adds
brought
expressed
and
green
is
he
canning
or
It is of
shuck
to
then
growing
eating
are
floors, where
air reaches
as
shucks
becomes
ventilated
end
the
allowed
hold
or
fit for
be
in
money
milky stage.
must
If
no
the
and
it once,
be
when
canning
hard.
was
to
corn
harvested
or
cultivated
never
Sweet
is
CORN
SWEET
i68
of
in
canning
June 15
to
arrested
be
can
A
possible.
the
sugar
the
corn
longer period
of
An
rainfall
excessive
dry
a
is
and
The
author
and
1909
1908
was
of
season
to
up
of
affords
into
worst
its
too
the
enemy.
not
of
source
he
of
the
for
No
germ
for
of
tained
main-
be
can
produced.
of
The
sweet
1908
of
season
the
was
corn
The
produced.
crop
by
a
sweet
changes
will
tion
cultiva-
seasons
ever
of
grains
amount
maintained
be
the
acre
ing
Dur-
did
not
come
ton
or
more,
good.
as
of
high percentage
the
stage
proper
can
his
and
to
the
by canning apparatus
the
sweet
corn.
be
By
of
at
of
sour
heat
destroy
these
rapid
a
bacteria
that
them.
bacteria
rate
this
and
to
the
corn,
can
broken
is
corn
sugar,
dangerous
juices,resulting in
corn
has
temperature
sweet
can
during
crop
wet,
opportunity
an
sugar
good
cool
and
corn
yield
fermentative
undergoes
the
country
low
satisfaction.
his
best
was
skin
the
of
this
and
the
quality was
When
it
1909
chemical
the
healthy growth
a
quantity produced
the
and
and
heat
the
a
sugar.
complete
dry,
very
quality
best
his
such
injurious to
more
demonstrated
to
will
producing
tender
a
large growth
a
as
corn
of
healthy growth
a
weather
during dry
in
it has
product will contain
the
temperature
sweet
section
the
time.
if
season
a
heating destroys
kept in
be
low
as
another
process
only by handling
plucked
northern
over
can
at
the
by
it is because
corn,
that
it
changing
worthless, because
about
If any
corn.
this
extent
of
become
and
advantage
any
certain
a
keeping
brought
change
rapidity of
large body
quickly
very
to
and
quickly
corn
a
The
substances.
other
in
CORN
SWEET
I70
be
also
enter
canners'
applied
It is said
is from
cause
be-
the
that
ears
SWEET
of
their
corn,
the
All
into
Sweet
of
necessity
that
The
heating
kettle
he
the
no
used
can
acid
obtained
lying.
is
can
asked
his
from
was
canning
the
of
factory.
heat,
in
hence
order
If
that
ciently
suffi-
not
sterilized
not
and
by
away
would
the
and
but
that
for
sterilization
firmly
it
to
a
can
proper
hours
seven
in
a
her.
the
author
to
she
of
name
believing
heat,
that
was
the
in
that
was
process
she
acid
corn
informed
was
preserving
or
the
sweet
preserve
when
the
it
submit
boil
keep
successfully
not
not
factory
spoiling,
used,
does
she
once
went
in
killed.
does
she
If
solely
and
it
heating
be
the
housewife
would
in
of
center
probably
woman
of
spoliation
because
process.
it
A
the
is
corn
of
getting
there.
reason
sweet
neath
be-
condition
stage,
power
period
in
care
right
the
conducting
long
a
the
begins
souring
low
a
great
handling
proper
produce
heated
in
factory
the
has
corn
bacteria
kernels
the
on
of
necessity
the
and
manner
the
the
shows
corn
and
found
being
presence
171
husks.
this
sweet
CORN
lous
increduauthor
was
A
GOOD
TYPE
OF
SWEET
EVERGREEN.
CORN
SEED.
STOWELL'S
XVIII
CHAPTER
CHAPTER
A
DON'T
a
FORGET
FORGETS
That
soil
is
neglect
;
or
mistreat
it
and
feed
Caress
withdrawn.
jealous
as
"
lover
is
DON't
OF
and
its
as
bounty
it, it yields
a
hundredfold.
Don't
Forget
when
he
organic
does
Forget
farmer's
best
of
and
for
value
the
Don't
the
of
the
to
That
the
the
soil
more
is
contains
them
as
by
the
teen
sixof
pounds
many
is of
them
of
one
inestimable
soil.
moisture-conserving
increased
the
pacity
ca-
of
under
plowing
matter.
organic
furnishes
and
in
matter
supplies
of
soil
aids
nitrogen
for
the
plant.
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best
in
matter
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nearly
robber
it.
of
ton
and
organic
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growing
the
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the
stalk
corn
humus
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are
"
soil
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amounts
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soil
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of
large
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nitrogen
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a
into
back
out
by-products.
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potash,
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"
becomes
put
year
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than
farmer
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each
not
matter
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of
producers
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wants
abandoned
"
of
his
soil
organic
traveling
farm.
175
the
legumes
matter.
farmer
the
is
and
hungarian
rye,
"
who
refuses
along
the
to
ply
sup-
highway
CHAPTER
A
176
Don't
farm
Forget
That
"
FORGETS
it takes
of
fertility
the
out
DON'T
ON
less than
soil if
the
fiftyyears
is added
none
to
in the
meantime.
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Don't
centuries, is
kept
fertile
as
by
so
is founded
he
is
only
a
who
patriot
of
soil
his
its existence,
building.
entire
lends
tillageof
a
of
stage
of
prosperity
fertilityof
the
on
in any
as
the
That
"
country
to-day
methods
sane
Forget
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England's soil,after
That
"
our
aid
to
our
soil, and
that
conserve
that
fertility.
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Forget
means
full dinner
a
loaf
a
man,
of
of
soil
ever
any
dreamed
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made
us
and
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its richest
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and
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feeds
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of greed.
in power
of
up
and
ing
increasan
empire
splendor than
environment
we
must
and
get away
has
from
that
perish.
or
he
who
gets
closest
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he
only
is
farmer
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the
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greed
to
soil
the
reward.
"
Forget
"
exercise
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soil will mistreat
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building
and
a
loves
who
his soil.
requires the
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the
that
greed
"
conservation
the
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soil robbers,
environment
reaps
"
able
comfort-
and
imagined.
or
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working-
every
table
dining
soil wealth
body.
richer
West,
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hands
the
human
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of
conservation
every
means
fertility
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our
on
every
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pail in
bread
clothing on
in
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of
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the
soil
not
love
his
always
a
feeding of
proper
fertile brain.
a
farmer
a
who
does
it.
"
That
a
soil robber
is
man
CHAPTER
A
178
Don't
Forget
of
problem
Don't
"
"
"
ration
Forget
fruitful
Don't
building
That
the
legume
That
full of
for
is the
vital
most
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the
soils.
soil
means
breathe
cannot
organic
furnish
crops
breathing
a
soil
"
in
be
soil
That
Forget
will
FORGETS
That
needed
"
crop.
and
DON'T
age.
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Don't
soil
"
the
balanced
ditched
ON
a
living,
unless
it
is
matter.
the
proportion
to
ratio
of
increase
your
interest
of
in
your
scientific
farming.
Don't
Forget
is to
keep
harvesting
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and
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Don't
soil
the
soil that
inferior
an
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brains
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busy growing
soil restoration
for
crops
both
farm
produces
product
the
est
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it doesn't
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price.
by fertile
about
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of
secret
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under.
plowing
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the
the
soil
your
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crops
bring
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used
lavish
a
well
as
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"
agriculture is brought
improved
fertile fields.
as
when
of
supply
the
built
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organic
original
in
matter
its
construction.
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horse
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load
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make
fed
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manages
requires
so
as
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to
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day
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well
of
fed
good
a
and
full
two-
groomed.
it must
crops
be
day.
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real
the
farmer
back
each
year
extracted
from
it
put
was
horses
two
each
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pull
to
pull its load
groomed
is soil, well
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soil
the
than
fertility
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That
"
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the
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your
bedrock
into
is
the
by growing
of
the
who
one
soil
more
crops.
paying
farm
fed.
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"
success
in soil restoration
depends
of
soil
on
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the
beyond
of
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the
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ever
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in the
or
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much
to
tell
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may
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worn-out
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substance
from
comes
farmer
of the
sensitive
as
in
the
history
God
has
yet
soil."
and
material
that
will
resentive
think
must
to
man
has
duced
pro-
it.
of
in it.
forget
must
you
the
no
get anything out
something
put
nations
God
restore
cannot
you
of
produced
soil exhaustion
of
only
the
way
the
the
way
the
to-day.
the
of
purpose
their
to
thoughts
solve
themselves
to
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severest
soil started
"
required
are
crisis of
direct
"
it.
feeding
what
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help
your
?
people exactly how
rightly
of
being.
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"
value
the
American
soil is
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"
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thought
no
perish.
proper
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be
must
entire
the
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our
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but
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farm
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plant
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we
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us,
human
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worn-out
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on
of
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it, so
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ways
towards
workmen
skilled
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came
the
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feed
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it is to
you
not
lesson
neglect as
pioneer
what
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why
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handle
his soil headed
increase
to
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learn
has
who
you
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so
Nature's
onto
That
"
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soil.
soil
"
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in all trades,
crisis
catch
farmer
the
year's profit,has
proportion
Don't
of
That
"
Forget
soil in
to
to
179
soil exhaustion.
Don't
the
gumption
your
FORGETS
building.
Don't
doom
DON'T
ON
CHAPTER
A
That
your
towards
in
this book
enrich
and
the
test
the
is
not
soil, as
investigations
soil
problem.
is in
getting
increasing fertility.
pushing along
the
worn-out
that
momentum
Forget
Don't
of
the
the
farmer
Forget
like he
as
long
that
as
leaves
to
farmer's
That
"
of
residue
no
value
crop
Don't
Forget
"
That
it has
living thing.
Forget
Forget
Don't
paying
these
a
of
is
the
into
up
deceiver.
gay
that
soil is
the
be
farms
fed.
and
fertile soil.
a
his
when
building.
it should
behind
man
community
a
looking
of
green
soil.
why
reflex
soil
gone
said
been
with
the
plow
plow
is
is
no
turning
soil.
That
"
in soil too
poor
it is
to
folly to
grow
and
select
mature
and
plant
them
to
a
crop.
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crops
in
Forget
seed
soil
your
everything
soil
the
prosperous
That
worn-out
or
up
matter
to
reason
the
but
"
force
a
better
That
"
buildings are
infertile
good
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the
rotation
That
longer
with
load
barn
methods
organic
"
Don't
the
to
best
Forget
farm
building is being
build
covering
Don't
Don't
soil.
the
tongue.
cannot
carry
tained
main-
be
two-horse
a
of the
you
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"
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smoke
pull
of
income
net
cannot
soil
income
net
it.
of the
one
of
to
end
the
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is
trying
continue
upon
grows
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a
to
"
you
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crops
is
who
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Don't
the
average
much
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"
hitched
horse
one
than
that
but
the
that
of
increasing the fertility
without
done
is greater
city man,
average
it is said
That
furnishes
it that
at
results.
accomplished
"
average
Don't
FORGETS
DON'T
it's the keeping
fertility,
soil towards
the
ON
CHAPTER
A
i8o
Forget
on
soils
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our
"
That
worn-out
would
Forget
now
"
be
That
the
soils
were
rich
in
the
who
men
poor
once
farmers
grew
or
big
else
fertility.
policy
of
properly feeding
A
CHAPTER
the
soil is
the
farmer
is
is the
no
in
money
of
Don't
with
That
"
of
Forget
Don't
soil fertility
the
produces
his soil the
who
will
best
crops
best.
he
says
soon
cannot
is
there
say
is
limit
no
soils
long
so
to
as
the
bilities
possido
we
not
matter.
That
you
cannot
That
the
truly
overfeed
soil
your
matter.
"
drains
his
quantities of organic
matter
who
one
ever
success.
farmer
there
organic
"
Forget
is the
not
increasing of
crops,
green
well-drained
feed
organic
the
does
farming.
our
their
who
feeds
and
under
Forget
Don't
he
who
to
way
That
"
plow
to
limit
ditches
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Don't
for
generations, but
farmer
and
own
That
"
who
one
the
conservation
the
Forget
afford
That
"
obstructing his
Don't
future
practices it.
Forget
in view
i8i
FORGETS
DON'T
for
only good
not
who
Don't
have
ON
soil builder
successful
it
soil, tills it well, feeds
and
keeps
it
busy
with
large
ing
grow-
crops.
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Don't
plant food
available
by feeding
Don't
is
of
it with
Forget
the
plenty
"
soil
the
of
only
can
of animal
and
the
That
draining
be
maintained
vegetable
foundation
That
and
condition
physical
of
soil
matter.
building
draining.
Forget
Don't
a
That
"
horse
"
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the
soil in less
adding
the
it opens
"
to
Don't
matter
the
That
"
than
supply
Forget
is
pores
"
never
four
each
That
sour.
and
soil is like
increases
organic
years
a
matter
;
hence
currying
circulation.
is farmed
the
out
necessity of
year.
well-drained
soil
full
of
ganic
or-
i82
A
CHAPTER
it
That
Forget
Don't
FORGETS
DON'T
ON
is
of
folly
the
follies
to
"
fertilizer
commercial
"
weeds
grow
as
That
Forget
Don't
kill
corn;
the
"
the
lines
best
of
products
scientific
of
the
the
agriculture
in
lacking
takes
it
That
Forget
Don't
soils
on
organic
much
as
use
matter.
plant
food
to
two
of
weeds.
boy
farmer,
and
the
and
if
farm
girl
trained
domestic
are
along
science.
the
THE
BEST
FARMER'S
THE
LINES
OF
PRODUCT,
SCIENTIFIC
IF
EDUCATED
AGRICULTURE.
ALONG
CONCLUSION
i86
ambitious
The
had
has
held
life.
joy
the
peacefulness
of
happiness
true
no
only
the
of
he
so
of
business
has
fertile
grown
and
nature,
fields and
had
have
believing
up
is to
gain
of
love
the
surroundings
financial
or
ideals
farming
farm
good
intellect
bright, sharp
problems,
returns
education,
in his
with
soil
The
financial
and
the
place
him
to
up
professional
boy
country
found
be
no
that
on
the
into
the
farm.
farmer
The
boy
strife
never-ending
and
farms
our
educated
so
and
of
worry
have
lost
the
boys
has
the
drifted
and
city men
best
of
bloom
business,
our
young
manhood.-
True,
of
some
and
the
and
lives
would
have
not
had
gotten
scientific
of
lines
have
they
;
drifted
marks
of
of
the
life what
along
remained
and
agriculture
from
educated
been
they
of
disappointment
out
gotten
nence,
emi-
majority
vast
have
the
bear
and
success
the
but
who
boys
cities
the
blasted
they
the
of
army
into
farm
happiness,
maybe
mighty
attained
have
the
on
farm.
While
as
build
to
lives
rural
will
be
better
grades,
When
girls will
this
be
our
more
homes
herds
the
inside
and
out
be
be
live
to
soil and
the
of
fields
flocks
and
girls
of
problem
so
educational
our
and
boys
the
farming,
our
built
farms
of
up
made
more
attractive.
is done
headed
our
of
change
so
our
solve
to
us
science, that
richer,
made
pleasant and
educate
help
and
methods
our
soils,let
it will
domestic
farm
of
our
up
that
system
changing
are
we
the
great
towards
the
procession
farm,
and
of
boys
the
and
profes-
CONCLUSION
mercantile
sions, the
relieved
of
Nearly
bid
the
and
years
affectionate
an
and
porch
activities.
busy
of
He
for
the
of
his
and
for
farming, political strife
himself
past
experience
to
finds
now
fund
of
But
now
the
as
realizing that
"
dream
of
his
days
the
lost
far
removed
may
commune
the
and
the
Nature
of
have
in
fallen
to
people
tice
prac-
in
facturing,
manu-
holding,
life with
time
he
and
a
great
to
view,
the
and
clover,
of
songs
in
bask
of
the
and
where,
he
men,
smell
of
beauty
the
delights
of
some
problems,
admire
the
remainder
farm,
the
soil
birds
ful
life's fit-
regain
may
Upon
study
"
until
spend
to
life.
and
do
you
for
done
get
not
do
not
tempted
to
behind
you.
realize
Your
you.
oh,
opportunities.
your
yet you
are
to
America,
pleasant places," but
grasp
you
tempter
successful
soothing
of
sunshine
sky.
Farmers
If
corn,
for
himself
eternity appears
that
nature,
plants, hear
the
its
pursuits
bitter, galling strife
and
open
failed
the
vetch
of
entered
office
of
short
a
farm
with
of
but
farm,
of
from
bloom
rustle
be
the
upon
of
land
o'er, he yearns
pleasures
growing
"
will be
and
farm
his credit.
border
it will
old
engaged
meridian
the
be
fifteen,
educated
in the
years,
many
and
city
college,
law, engaged
profession
the
on
mercantile
in
engaged
of
profession
the
of
boy
a
mother
towards
time, attending school
a
author,
his
to
face
will
workers.
the
ago
adieu
his
set
business
manufacturing
congestion
forty
187
so
Ye
what
lines
have
many
of
are
God
and
indeed
you
God's
have
chosen
it.
act
leave
the
Stay
farm,
with
your
command
the
fields,your
CONCLUSION
i88
and
flocks
them
Farm
is
in
While
"
The
You're
And
"
Better
Tho'
in
is
the
Back
the
to
"
words,
Better
stay
the
be
all
of
monarch
the
on
farm
nothing
hurry
while
in
you've
a
survey.
a
come
to
mountains,
the
of
you
profits
in
to-day;
air
the
as
surest,
loaded
are
free
as
and
safest
the
orchards
Remember
Don't
girls
the
Longer."
farm
The
"
words,
the
music
sweeter
a
enjoy
and
make
be
to
peaceful,
farm.
the
music
There's
there
of
life
and
boys
your
housekeepers
and
farmers
restful
train
and
surroundings
your
attractive;
more
good
improve
herds,
longer,
rather
to
go."
risk,
slow;
boys.
but
Farm,"
Stay
on
the