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manuring is baked hard, and the cane there is 

 only shoe-top high, the leaves saffron-hued, the 

 stems no thicker than lead pencils and appear- 

 ing just about as succulent as an old tooth- 

 brush. With every condition in its favor for 

 the rest of the season it will give no more than 

 a ton of hay to the acre; probably the yield 

 will be only half a ton. 



On one of our oats fields there is some stone 

 left which we want to haul off this summer; 

 so we didn't follow the oats with peas as on the 

 rest of the small grain land. Those five or six 

 acres promised to lie fallow for the remainder 

 of the year; but now there's a fine volunteer 

 crop of crabgrass and Japanese clover coming 

 on. We're running a line of fence across one 

 side, to cut the patch off from the cornfields 

 and there's excellent pasturage for the horses, 

 enough to carry them well till the beginning of 

 winter. 



All this means of course that the permanent 

 pastures will be left to restore themselves for 

 late fall use. They'll be greatly improved by 

 the rest, and the stock will thrive all the better 

 for the change. The ultimate cost of doing 

 these things is just the cost of a couple of days 

 labor; the profits can't be exactly estimated, 



