THREE PIONEERSHIPS 



better seeding alone your fields will yield 

 you many per cent more than now. 



In that better tillage of the soil to which 

 I referred, is included more plowing or 

 disking, particularly beginning earlier so as 

 to save the moisture of early spring. A 

 great deal of what is called agriculture is 

 not agriculture; it is simply land-skimming, 

 seeing how many years you can rob your 

 land, ship of! and get money for the grain, 

 and put nothing back. If you use your soil 

 as a mine, by and by will come the reckon- 

 ing. In the Holy Land, all the way from 

 Joppa to Jerusalem, until you get up to the 

 rocks where nothing ever grew, the soil 

 looks good, but it produces almost nothing 

 and will sell for almost nothing. I wonder 

 if the Hebrew capitalists who are helping 

 poor Hebrews to settle there are not mis- 

 taken in supposing that that country will 

 ever be the home of a large population? 



No land anywhere but has a limit to its 

 productivity. Put back something into the 

 soil, or by and by you cannot get anything 

 out of it. There are certain industries that 



