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realize what he should, must put his head to work and 

 inform himself as to the correct lines to follow that he may 

 be most successful. He must learn how to handle the 

 soil that he will haye it at his command the largest amount 

 of available soil fertility, and he must know how to use 

 this. But he must go further and make a study of the 

 question how to get the greatest benefit from his crops 

 by diversification of his industry and by completing the 

 processes. 



Diversified farming is a subject to which too little atten- 

 tion is given by the average farmer. He imagines it is 

 some fad or tomfoolery and that it is best confined to the 

 books. But it is a reality. It shows results, and that is 

 the important thing. 



The farmer is by nature and training conservative. He 

 has done well; he cannot very well realize how much better 

 he might have done, or what is possible for him in the 

 future. He does not comprehend, except in rare instances, 

 the vast difference in final profits between doing things by 

 strictly scientific methods and doing the same things by 

 the common go-lucky way. 



It is not sufficient that the farmer find out how to grow 

 the largest crops and get tons or bushels as his portion; 

 he must know what further he can do with his grain and 

 hay and fodder to make the end most desirable. Divers- 

 ified or mixed farming shows the way. Grain raising to 

 the exclusion of all else is not wise. It is wasteful to the 

 land, and wasteful to the crop itself. By raising all kinds 

 of crops better results are obtained. 



And in the matter of preventing waste, it is essential 

 that live stock be added to the farm. Cattle and hogs, 

 and perhaps sheep and poultry, are necessary. Right 

 there the farmer becomes in part a manufacturer. The 



