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own notion and seeded as he thought best in the 

 fall at the time the Moyer part was also seeded. 

 In face of the unusual heavy rains of 1915, there 

 was a very wide difference in the yield of the two 

 pieces, so much that they were cut and threshed 

 separately. Mr. Mover's third was more bushels per 

 acre than the total yield per acre of the additional 

 ten acres. 



Cut No. 28 shows the crop on the Moyer part 

 just before cutting. Knowing that the same 

 heavy rain fell on the entire 50 acres, we ask the 

 question, was the weather responsible for the 

 wide difference in the yield or was it the tillage? 

 Again the question, is not this evidence suffi- 

 ciently clear to establish the fact that the right 

 principles and methods will bring results that 

 wrong methods will not? You must know how- 

 ever, what is right and what is wrong. 



Cut No. 29 is J. M. Moyer's 1915 winter wheat, 

 50 acres on land broken from the prairie sod in 

 1914, average yield 45| bushels per acre, a very 

 marked yield for new breaking. Remember this 

 when you look at other fields grown by Mr. Moyer. 



The full page Cut No. 30, in colors, rear field 

 with its rank healthy growth is Mr. Moyer's 1914 

 crop on land summer tilled in 1913, and previously 

 referred to in connection with Cut No. 26. The 

 front field with its somewhat stunted growth is 

 also winter wheat on land that had grown a crop 

 of wheat in 1913 at the same time the rear field 

 was being summer tilled. The two fields were 

 sown at the same time, the rank rear field was 

 sown with 20 pounds of seed per acre and the 



