A CHAPTER ON DON’T FORGETS 179 
depends on your gumption to catch onto Nature’s ways 
of soil building. 
Don’t Forcer — That the farmer who has no thought 
beyond the year’s profit, has his soil headed towards the 
doom of soil exhaustion. 
Don’t Forcer — That you increase the value of your 
soil in proportion to what you feed it. 
Don’t Forcet— That skilled workmen are required 
in all trades, why not on the farm? 
Don’r Forcet — That our entire substance comes from 
the soil. If it fails us, we perish. 
Don’t Forcet— That the American farmer has yet 
to learn the lesson of “ proper feeding of the soil.” 
Don’r Forcet — That soil is as sensitive and resentive 
of neglect as a human being. 
Don’t Forcer— That in the history of nations no 
crisis ever came but what God produced the man to 
handle it, so in the crisis of soil exhaustion God has pro- 
duced the plant or material that will restore it. 
Don’t Forcet — That you cannot get anything out of 
worn-out soil until you put something in it. 
Don’t Forcer— That you must forget the way the 
pioneer farmed. You must think only of the way the 
soil must be farmed to-day. 
Don’r Forcet — That the purpose of this book is not 
so much to tell people exactly how to enrich the soil, as 
it is to rightly direct their thoughts and investigations 
that they may help themselves to solve the soil problem. 
Don’r Forcet— That your severest test is in getting 
your worn-out soil started towards increasing fertility. 
Don’t Forcet — That in pushing along the worn-out 
