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growers on Long Island annually dig and haul 300 bushels and 

 upward per acre, 80 to 100 bushels increase per acre makes 

 the bank account look pleasant, and promptly develops many a 

 dream intO' a reality. 



We westerners talk as flat footed as we walk; furthermore, 

 as you have noticed, our lung power is well developed and 

 enables us to be long distance talkers. Therefore, while you 

 more quiet, conservative dwellers along New England's rock 

 bound coast, may feel that this heart to heart chat is long 

 strung out, you will find, if you care to dig down, that my ear- 

 nest endeavor from start to finish has been, to place before you 

 in a simple way, the great value to the farmer of improved 

 seed of every description and the part better seeds will play 

 in bringing communities into true cooperation which, next to 

 the individual and the seed, go to make up the equilateral tri- 

 angular pyramid of successful farming, and firmer foundation 

 does not exist. 



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