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of the soil and its crop-producing power. Taylor, in writing from 

 Leonardtown, Md., under date of May 4, 1903, makes the following 

 statement : 



There are two or three farmers in this vicinity who have gradually brought 

 their farms up to a very fair state of cultivation by deeper plowing, more 

 thorough cultivation, and by the use of cowpeas and clover as green manure. 



The above statements show that a few of the more successful farm- 

 ers have already realized the benefits to be derived by the use of lime 

 land green manure, and, in fact, have begun the practice of it with 

 | results which are unmistakably beneficial. 



FRANK D. GARDNER, 

 In charge of Soil Management. 

 Approved : 



JAMES WILSON, 



Secretary of Agriculture. 



JUNE 2, 1905. 







