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potatoes. Then add 1,500 pounds of special potato fertilizer. 

 You should harvest 250 bushels of potatoes, at 50 cents per 

 bushel, or $125 for the crop. The following crop will be Hun- 

 garian, and we will apply now nothing but yard manure, receiv- 

 ing three tons more. The next crop is timothy, and as manure 

 in high farming is now more abundant, I may if in hand apply 

 yard manure, 6 loads in the fall with a manure spreader, or if 

 not in hand use 500 to 700 pounds or more of a grass fertilizer. 

 The seventh year we have timothy again, with the same amount 

 this time of fertilizer. This gives us two acres to sell, at 3 tons 

 to the acre, or 6 tons worth a little over $100. I do not feed 

 timothy hay as the market wants it at a fair profit. The eighth 

 year I apply the same amount of fertilizer, and turn a field 

 capable of yielding 2 1-2 tons to the acre into pasture. The 

 cow will fill herself up in a short time, lie down and rest and get 

 up to fill the pail. It will carry a cow or more to the acre. You 

 have now three cash crops from which you will realize $225, 

 or a little more than $28 per acre for the eight years. We 

 started out with less than $8 to the acre, and we have got cash 

 out of that acre from three crops that average about $28 every 

 year for the eight years. But we have fifteen tons of foods 

 unsold in the crops of the eight years, or nearly two tons per 

 year. With your old fertilized pastures and your field pastures 

 this food will keep 80 per cent or four-fifths of a cow the year 

 round, and being varied, good foods will give you, from good 

 feeding and good cows, $75 per cow in butter. Then you will 

 realize 80 per cent of $75, or $60 to the acre, and about $28 from 

 your sale crop. In other words, you have lifted that acre up 

 from a ton to the acre, annual crop, to three tons, and by feeding 

 these acres every year, as you feed your cow every year, you 

 have lifted that $8 per acre up to $88. You may take ofif some- 

 thing from this fine showing to meet various seasonable and 

 other drawbacks found in farming. While this is a little bit of 

 book farming, yet there is not a figure that a man can success- 

 fully challenge. It is attainable as a separate possible attainable 

 result, yet I am aware that the returns will not average that 

 every year. As it will not cost over $40 to the acre to handle 

 this system, the result will be above the necessary and the great 

 preacher might feel above the desirable, who would have man 



