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ments with balanced rations, the legumes will be rated at a 

 much higher value than they have been in times past. Stock 

 .growers will even find that it will pay them to grow the 

 legumes solely as a means of stopping the great waste that is 

 now going on by the enforced use of rations too highly carbo- 

 naceous to meet the wants of the animal economy. 



A system of farming that will at once conserve and 

 increase the fertility of the soils of the West, that will, by 

 diminishing the amount of the acreage in cereals and increas- 

 ing that of the grasses, reduce the cost of labor fifty per cent., 

 and that will stop the waste of foods now going on, will at 

 least indicate the "way out" that can be followed with safety 

 and profit. The extended use of the clovers and other legumes 

 will provide such a system, and for this reason we urge it 

 upon the attention of every farmer. Other nations and the 

 ^majority of our states have already adopted such systems, 

 ignorant of the recent discoveries that have made the way 

 plain, safe and easy. It devolves upon the Western farmer 

 ~to say whether he will be guided at once by the experience of 

 practical farmers in the past and by the light that science has 

 shed upon the subject, or whether he will continue to waste 

 the fertility of the richest heritage that Providence has ever 

 bestowed upon a people, and reduce to comparative barren- 

 ness the fairest land on which the sun shines. 



FINIS. 



