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cess. We try an experiment, or plant a new plant, 

 and fail, and then condemn it in the most bitter 

 terms when we ourselves are most likely to blame 

 for the failure. Oh ! that we would but remember 

 "that every failure is but a step to success," and 

 "that failure is in a sense, the highway to suc- 

 cess. " 



No matter in what business we may be engaged, 

 we must keep everlastingly at the game if we 

 would succeed. The man that makes a success 

 at farming maps out a plan of crop growing for 

 each year and for a series of years, and follows 

 it closely no matter what the vicissitudes of any 

 season may be, for he knows that if he fails one 

 year he will succeed the next, and that the gen- 

 eral average of several seasons will show the 

 profit. 



We must needs expect failure in many of our un- 

 dertakings, but if we are to let this discourage us, 

 we had as well quit before we begin. Every prog- 

 ress that has been made in agriculture or in any 

 other human enterprise, has been made through 

 numerous failures. Failure is the price of suc- 

 cess, a motto we must remember if we are to suc- 

 ceed. 



THE FALLOW. 



The art of fallowing has been regarded as a 

 great aid to the business of farming. To fallow 

 originally meant to plow or till the land through 

 the summer season, without sowing it to any crop. 

 Sinclair said, ' ' By a complete summer fallow, land 

 is rendered tender and mellow. The fallow gives 

 it a better tilth than can be given by a fallow 



