THE CALL OF THE LAND 



On every level of redemption, casting out 

 devils goes hand in hand with working 

 miracles. The Geneva station, by showing 

 the limitations of soil inoculation, pretty 

 effectually discouraged "vestpocket ferti- 

 lizer" promoting. Twenty years ago the 

 agricultural press loudly praised corn- 

 grinders, corn-and-cob-grinders, oat-grind- 

 ers, rye-grinders, horsepower grinders, 

 windpower, waterpower, steampower and 

 hot air grinders. Now, literally according 

 to the words of Scripture, "the grind- 

 ers cease because they are few." Dean 

 Henry, of Wisconsin, bitterly denounced 

 by interested manufacturers, demonstrated 

 that under ordinary circumstances in 

 the West, grinding grain is not profit- 

 able. 



Professor Lyon, while in Nebraska, use- 

 fully tested the propriety of looking to 

 Russia proper, Siberia and Turkestan for 

 varieties of grain and alfalfa adapted to our 

 plains. He found that durum or macaroni 

 wheat and the early varieties of oats and 

 corn will flourish here and be highly profit- 



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