THE PROFESSION 

 OF FARMING 



" Well," explained Bobby, " I dremp I was a 

 duck, an* when I woke up I had swum off the 

 bed." 



Seed improvements offers a big field. One 

 practical man found that potato scab can be 

 combated by simply exposing the seed tubers to 

 that great germ destroyer sunlight, and that this 

 hastens their growth. 



A minister inherited a wornout farm of fif- 

 teen acres with a soil of reddish gravelly clay. 

 After studying the best and most modern farm- 

 ing literature he started a dairy farm. He kept 

 30 head of cattle, raised his own "roughage," 

 sold milk, bred cattle, and cleared more than 

 $1000 a year per acre. The cows were kept in 

 the barn the year round as his land, being near 

 the city of Philadelphia, was too valuable to be 

 used as pasturage. 



The time is at hand when the principles we 

 are laying down in this book for specialties will 

 be applied to the great staples, and we shall be 

 able to double and redouble our yields.. Even 

 now it is true of corn when farmers give special 

 attention to it. The instances given in Chapter 



