A LITTLE LAND S7n 



AND A LIVING 



tion, it has been the last to feel the necessity and 

 benefit of special training. For this reason it 

 has not taken its rightful position. But its pos- 

 sibilities have attracted specialists who have 

 shown that no career is more inviting or more lu- 

 crative or more dignified than that of the skillful 

 foster-father of plants. 



It is a common saying that "the Southern 

 farmer spends his life fighting grass, to raise cot- 

 ton, to buy hay." 



In just the same way the Northern fanner 

 worries over "them pesky briers," blackberries 

 and raspberries, that grow by his fences, and 

 roots them out to plant corn that brings him fif- 

 teen dollars an acre profit : if he would encourage 

 the briers he might reap five hundred dollars an 

 acre from them. 



Says the President of the Chicago Great 

 Western R. R. Co.: 



" The eccentric and witty Lorenzo Dow was in 

 the corn-hog belt when he said : 



"'The average Western farmer toils hard, 

 often depriving himself of needed rest to raise 

 corn for what? To feed hogs for what? To 



