THE CALL OF THE LAND 



plans and specifications in a bulletin and 

 proceeded. With all their incredulous and 

 derisive smiles his neighbors could not but 

 note the results from his dairy herd. That 

 community is now full of silos. 



The bumper crops and fine animal speci- 

 mens on our university farm and experi- 

 ment stations are telling lessons which mul- 

 titudes read. The grain average to the acre 

 from our farm is twice that of the state, save 

 in corn ; our corn average is twice and a half 

 the state's. 



A blessed evangel is some of our simple 

 work on the farm and out in the state begun 

 as experimental and then continued more 

 for publicity and hortatory ends. We 

 demonstrate an almost perfect control of the 

 apple scab by two sprayings with bordeaux. 

 Results attract wide attention, and fruit 

 growers slowly recognize their importance. 

 We keep down cedar rust on apple trees by 

 bordeaux spraying in spring, showing that 

 cedar trees near orchards need not be 

 removed. 



We show that cover-crops make such 



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