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much when the quality' is taken into account. This enables him to 

 grow larger crops each year. Instead of spending half of his prof- 

 its for commercial fertilizers, he manufactures his own. He sees, 

 as he never saw before, the necessity of increasing the fertility 

 of his farm. He discovers that the first essential to successful 

 farming is to feed his growing crops liberally; not to see how little 

 he can do for them, but how much. Instead of trying to get 

 something from nothing he turns squarely about and the manu- 

 facture of barnyard and liquid manure absorbs his attention to an 

 extent he never dreamed of before. There is nothing in the world 

 like the adoption of a strict soiling system to teach any man, be 

 he learned or ignorant, the true principles of agriculture, and it 

 is to this one thing, i. e. " Soiling " (forced upon them by neces- 

 eity) that makes the channel island farmers the best and most 

 Bcientific agriculturists in the world. 



