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crops are planted in the fall that produce the 

 heavy supplies of organic matter for the soil, we 

 have then secured the soil covering, the importance 

 of which has heen shown. 



The soil remedies herein detailed by the soil 

 doctor for the treatment of worn and worn-out 

 soils, the most vital disease of our nation, are safe 

 and sure. They are not new and untried remedies 

 or nostrums, they are Nature's remedies and have 

 been known to agriculture for ages. By their use 

 England restored her worn soils and made them 

 increase their productive power nearly four-fold, 

 and the agriculturalists of old Eome administered 

 them to its soil at the time it was noted for its 

 high state of agriculture. 



Germany for the past ten years by their use 

 has made her potato crop average 200 bushels per 

 acre, while the United States by their non-use 

 has made but an average of 93 bushels to the acre. 



In England and Scotland there are tenant farm- 

 ers to-day who pay high rents for land, as much 

 as $20 per acre, feed the land like they do their 

 bullocks, and the food we mention, even at a cost 

 of more than $100 per acre, and yet have made 

 fortunes from their rented land, and one instance 

 is given where one of those tenant farmers has 

 made a fortune of a quarter of million dollars, 

 lives in a fine mansion "with servants, beauti- 

 fully kept lawns, parks and gardens, with all kinds 

 of fruits and flowers, and a conservatory for grow- 

 ing hot house plants and fruits out of season.'* 



And there are scores of other tenants in this 

 land who are making money and enjoying all the 

 comforts of life, who have learned the true art of 



