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corn to livestock and taking care of all manure, 

 to be returned to the land, you're saving most 

 of that fifteen cents. If you're not putting it 

 back that way, sooner or later you'll have to 

 put it back in some other and most likely a 

 more expensive way. 



So, if you're feeding forty-cent corn to 

 growing hogs or cattle, and saving fifteen cents 

 out of that to go back to your land as ferti- 

 lizer, that part of the grain that's making the 

 gain in weight of your animals is costing only 

 twenty-five cents. 



To put it another way: If you're selling a 

 fifty-bushel crop of corn to a neighbor, you're 

 giving him $7.50 that you're not figuring on; 

 and if you're buying the fifty bushels from him 

 to be fed to your own cattle and hogs, you'll 

 get that $7.50 for the enrichment of your land, 

 besides the profit you make in feeding. 



Now suppose that's kept up for ten years. 

 Suppose you've raised fifty bushels of corn to 

 the acre for that time and have sold it at har- 

 vest. There's a total of $75 an acre that your 

 land has lost in fertility. There's no three- 

 shell trickery about it, either; it's clean gone, 

 and it's gone to stay. Perhaps you haven't 

 missed it yet; it may be that your methods of 



