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In, addition to long-lease contracts with provisions for crop 

 rotation, clover growing and cowpea growing should be added in 

 some cases, where possible, the co-operative handling of live stock 

 by the landlord and tenant, or, if the tenant is able, it may be wise 

 to require him to feed the crops on, the place. Again, the landlord 

 can sometimes better conditions through the supplying of clover 

 seed or cowpea seed for the tenant to sow on the place. While the 

 seeding of both of these crops is expensive, it is usually a paying 

 proposition in the long run, for the landlord to furnish them, if the 

 tenant himself is not able to do so. The co-operative buying of a 



First prize yellow ear, Tenth Annual Mis- 

 souri State Corn Show, Reid's Yellow 

 Dent, shown by H. L. Evans, 

 Norborne, Mo. 



First prize white ear and champion 



single ear, Johnson County White, 



Tenth Annual Missouri State 



Corn Show, shown by Chris 



Smith, Bunceton, Mo. 



