PROEM 
TO SECOND EDITION 
HE first edition of this book is exhausted. It 
having met with such an unexpected, flattering 
reception, a second edition is ventured. 
In the two years that the first edition has been before 
the public, the author has received so many commenda- 
tions from the press and people regarding the merits and 
helps of his book, that he feels that he must have touched 
a key note of worn soil restoration, the greatest and most 
important problem for solution now before the people. 
He, therefore, perceives that it is a greater honor to 
have so important a part in this great soil restoration 
movement, than to be honored with any high office in the 
gift of the people. 
No nation can become a power without a fertile soil. 
When a nation’s soil becomes worn and loses its power 
to produce paying crops, then death and decay is written 
on its very vitals. 
If we would have our nation to continue its place at 
the head of nations, we must maintain the fertility of 
our soils and prevent, by every possible means, their ex- 
haustion. 
It is the hope of the author that this book and its les- 
sons may play an important part in so solving the soil 
9 
