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year on this plat of ground previously devoted to seed- 

 lings, as above stated, we secured 105 bushels and forty 

 pounds of corn per acre." 



This marvelous yield referred to by Mr. Stevens is the 

 direct result of the careful cultivation which resulted in 

 storing a large surplus of moisture, and it is fair and rea- 

 sonable to conclude that equally as good, if not better, 

 results may be gained in any portion of Nebraska, Kansas, 

 or western Iowa and Missouri, by following our plan of 

 summer culture. 



To get the best results the farmer's mind must be clear 

 on three important points: That the ground must be in 

 proper condition when all his work is done on the soil; 

 that he must have a good, fine and firm root bed or seed 

 and an abundance of moisture stored below. 



A REMARKABLE ILLUSTRATION. 



In closing this chapter it may be very interesting as 

 well as very conclusive evidence of the correctness of our 

 claims, to give a few of the very marked conditions that 

 surrounded some of, the fields of wheat in the spring of 

 1904 on the Pomeroy Model Farm at Hill City, Kansas, 

 during the long continued early drouth. When most 

 fields under ordinary methods of cultivation were showing 

 no growth and no apparent moisture, the Model farm 

 wheat was making rapid growth carrying a dark green 

 color, while five feet of moisture was found below. An- 

 other field near Grainfield, Kansas, was in the same con- 

 dition; another near Champion, Nebraska, and another 

 near Trenton, Nebraska. The latter yielded forty-one 

 bushels per acre, while ninety per cent of the entire wheat 

 crop in that localitv was a total failure. Every wheat 

 field in western Nebraska and Kansas might have yielded 

 as much as the Trenton field had the land been treated 



