16 Progressive Agriculture 



CHAPTER II 

 FARM POSSIBILITIES 



Agriculture is not a completed or perfected 

 science. The end has not been reached. We are 

 going forward and every man who becomes some- 

 where near as interested as Edison has in elec- 

 tricity, will learn new and progressive ideas and 

 principles for years to come. 



There is advancement in other lines of human 

 endeavor, in everything that contributes to the 

 convenience and comfort of the human race; why 

 not, also, in the art of aiding Nature in the pro- 

 duction of useful crops on a more certain basis. 

 Better and more profitable farming in the semi- 

 humid sections means a greatly increased farm 

 population and more and larger towns and cities. 

 There are millions of acres of unoccupied lands, 

 waiting for the "Home Maker". Not for the 

 man that ignores better and more correct and 

 appropriate ideas and insists on redeeming the 

 country by very deep plowing or some other 

 notion that may apply under 30 to 50 inch annual 

 rainfall for he is liable to fail just the same as 

 thousands have in the past. But to the man who 

 will apply modern ideas, study the question care- 

 fully and continue to modernize, there are many 

 vacant fields that can be made to bloom like Mr. 

 Hahn's rose garden. (See Cut No. 2.) 



We are all by environment made skeptics and 

 it is true we are suspicious of any new idea or 

 advanced theory. Some of us are not even willing 



