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to grow enough corn. Where a man keeps all his land in grass and 

 buys his corn, using it to feed cattle, he is liable some years to feed at 

 a loss; and in any case should be sufficiently forehanded to keep at 

 least a part of a year's supply in the crib. This again involves shrinkage 

 and ratage. There are many ways when it seems cheaper to buy corn 

 than to grow it. There are many farms on which it actually is cheaper, 

 but in ine long run it always pays the farmer on any kind of decent 

 corn land to grow a very considerable part of this crop. 



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Courtesy of Wallaces' Farmer. 

 A couple of prize winners at the Iowa State Fair, 1902. 



