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This same field and the one preceding it in the rotation are put 

 in wheat the next year. The second field is sown to clover. 

 Sometimes part of this wheat land is saved for oats, which does 

 not interfere with the rotation. The stock is kept on this culti- 

 vated land as much of the time as possible. We use a great deal 

 of wheat straw in the barns for bedding and make from 600 to 

 1,000 spreader loads of manure which ]s returned to the fields 

 during the year. I think that by these methods our land im- 

 proves in fertility each year. 



The ultimate aim of all this work, aside from the satisfac- 

 tion we get out of it, is money that is easy to rotate, but if you 

 don't watch it will just radiate. Some of the money will have to 

 be put back into young stock, hired help, machinery, feed and 

 general expenses, but it is well to have your plans made for part 

 of this money to be put where it will not get away. I have spent 

 my surplus for land. Each year since I have been farming I 

 have either bought a piece of land or made a payment on one. 

 It is always a good plan to have some money handy or some- 

 thing you can turn into money, so if you have a chance to make 

 a good loan you can do so. Please don't understand from the 

 foregoing that we live altogether for money. We try to live 

 well, take some time for pleasure — a trip occasionally seems to 

 do us a world of good. We are for anything that makes ours a 

 better place in which to live. 



HOME GARDENS, FIELD CROPS AND HOME CANNING FOR 

 BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUB WORK. 



(O. H. Benson, specialist in charge of club work, United States Department of Agriculture.) 



For nearly a quarter of a century the organization of boys' 

 and girls' agricultural and home-interest clubs has been under 

 way in the United States, but the movement, though a worthy 

 one, suffered many reverses and, like the history of ancient 

 dynasties and monarchies, they have had their "rise and fall." 

 This was governed very largely by the coming and going of 

 county superintendents, teachers and other local leaders and the 

 lack of continuity in leadership. 



CLUB W^ORK ESSENTIALS. 



Club work to be constructive and successful must have: 

 1. A practical plan that contemplates a demonstration of 

 good farm and home practices and a net profit on investment 



