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ing the fertility of our lands, and in saving the need for so lavish a purchase 

 of commercial fertilizers. For, while acknowledging the great value 

 of commercial fertilizers, when intelligently used, our farmers, particularly 

 in the South, need to be taught true farm economy, and a less wasteful and 

 thoughtless way of using them. 



Mr. J. E. Wing, of Ohio, during some Institute work in Maryland in 

 which we were both recently engaged, told me that he has been perfectly suc- 

 cessful in stacking shredded fodder in the open air. This being the case, the 

 matfer of keeping shredded fodder becomes much more simplified, and there 

 need be no excuse that the farmer has not barn room in which to store it. 



