24 Progressive Agriculture 



ideas not at first thought of. The same will be 

 true of the farmer of the semi-humid west and it 

 is through more timely and more correct tillage 

 that shall more accurately utilize nature's elements 

 that we can and will populate these prairies with 

 prosperous farmers, and beautiful farm homes, 

 and happy will be the farmer and his family who 

 grasps these principles and gets busy. 



In the following pages we shall deal with the 

 whole subject broadly. We will present all the 

 results of our later observations and the selection 

 of correct principles, and this with a better under- 

 standing of some of the earlier ideas we have put 

 forth, we hope to clearly explain to the farmer 

 the more advanced ideas and how he can carry 

 out experiments in soil tillage and learn how with 

 greater certainty to reach the maximum yield 

 at a minimum cost each and every year, and 

 crop failure in the semi-humid west be a thing of 

 the past. Experiments should be small to begin 

 with, not that the principles may be wrong, but 

 you may not have a correct understanding of 

 every detail. It is with practical experience and 

 observation that the perplexing questions are 

 cleared up and when clearly understood one 

 frequently wonders why he did not so understand 

 it before. 



Remember this is the age of progression, the 

 old heads of our largest business institutions are 

 hiring experts on special lines at fabulous salaries 

 to promote the methods of advanced efficiency 

 and greater economy; in short, the heads of every 

 known enterprise, business or profession are try- 



