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the things we accomplish as upon the things v:e attempt to do. Endeavor 

 earnestly put forth to contribute our share toward the improvement 

 of agricultural interest will be a marked factor in the development 

 of a character whether we achieve distinction in that line or not. 



Most farmers do not have any adequate conception of the importance 

 of improving plants and animals, if they think of the matter at all; and 

 the individual who persistently awakens their thoughts along this line 

 by his own work, or by his interest in social gatherings where such 

 questions are discussed, will soon take high place among his fellows. 

 When the children of our public schools come to an understanding of 

 the importance and the possibility of work along the line of improving 

 the things they work with, they will be much more interested in home 

 affairs and less inclined to seek the city a little later to get a job on 

 the street car. 



It is a fact now well recognized that there is educational value in 

 work done in discovering the secrets and moods of nature as well as in 

 the modes and tenses of languages that have long ceased to be spoken. 



WHY WE RAISE CORN 

 G. F. Warren 



Com is a giant crop. It yields more food per acre than any other 

 common New York farm crop. Its only competitor in quantity of 

 food per acre is alfalfa. Like other giants it has a good appetite. It 

 requires good rich land. A part of its larger yield is due to the fact that 

 it is favored as to fields and fertilizers. 



Not only does corn yield more total food per acre than any other 

 New York crop, but it produces more protein per acre than any common 

 crop except alfalfa and perhaps clover. This fact is not often realized. 

 We say that corn is deficient in protein, but this is not due to low pro- 

 duction of protein per acre. It is due to the excess production of 

 carbohydrates. An acre of corn grows more protein than an acre of 

 oats, but it grows very much more carbohydrates; hence the proportion 

 of protein is low. 



Another important reason for raising corn is that it is a tilled crop. 

 It is desirable to have the land tilled occasionally so as to eliminate 

 weeds and improve the condition of the soil. 



