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given we have shown the result of the 1915 crop. 

 The field shown in No. 26 yielded 30 bushels per 

 acre and that in No. 27 yielded only 11J. This 

 added to the 1914 crop of 24^ bushels makes a 

 total of 36 bushels in two consecutive years, 

 following one season of summer tilling. And yet, 

 No. 26 yielded 47J bushels in 1914 and 30 bushels 

 in 1915, a total of 77 J in the two years, or 43| 

 bushels more than No. 27 for really knowing how. 

 This at 85 cents per bushel would be $36.98 per 

 acre, or the three years' interest on the land at 

 6% on a valuation of $205.33 per acre, not the 

 total return but more than the other at practically 

 no extra cost. 



The question naturally arises here as to why 

 this difference? The yields were not accidents. 

 There is a clear and distinct reason and this 

 reason slightly enlarged is the "Why" some men 

 are raising good crops in the most drouthy years 

 in western Nebraska and eastern Colorado, and 

 better ones in the good years, while others have 

 gone there, tried to do the same work, and failed 

 entirely. In short this striking illustration clinches 

 the fact that there is a right and a wrong way of 

 doing things. It also tells a valuable story in the 

 lesson of summer tilling or summer fallowing, 

 which, as commonly understood, means to culti- 

 vate one season to store the rain waters for use the 

 next year, for it shows there is more to it, also that 

 it is important to have every part of the work, 

 tillage, quantity of seed, time of seeding, all care- 

 fully done. Unless it is all timely and correctly 

 done you are liable to be sadly disappointed in 



