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tablish must be such a one that furnishes the or- 

 ganic matter in abundance each year. We need 

 not fear an over production of organic matter for 

 our soils. 



It is easy to provide upon every farm a system 

 that will furnish each year an abundance of or- 

 ganic matter. When cultivation has been finished 

 in the corn crop, sow one and one-half bushels of 

 rye to the acre or forty pounds of hairy vetch to 

 the acre, or a mixture of one bushel of rye and 

 twenty pounds of hairy vetch to the acre, and an 

 abundance of the best organic matter obtainable 

 will be furnished in time for plowing under in the 

 following spring. 



After wheat harvest disc up the stubble and sow 

 hungarian and you will have a fine crop of organic 

 matter for turning under in the fall to follow with 

 wheat. Or if the stubble ground is wanted for 

 corn the next season, then disc up and sow to rye 

 or hairy vetch, or a mixture of the two. By a 

 little thought, a little planning, quite a good deal of 

 energy and some work, many ways can be devised 

 by which your soils will each year be furnished 

 with an abundance of organic matter if you do not 

 have sufficient supplies of manure. 



Many contend that one crop of clover every 

 three or four years supplies sufficient organic 

 matter for our soils. Never was a greater fallacy 

 promulgated if the clover crop is handled as it is 

 usually handled upon the average farm, which is 

 to remove both hay and seed crop and then pasture 

 until nothing remains but the root system. The 

 root system of clover will furnish too small an 

 amount of organic matter so the little you would 



