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latter yields always show large profits and lead 

 to a competency, while the average yield usually 

 gives no profit. If the average yield gives only 

 a bare subsistence, what must be the condition 

 of those who secure much less than the average ? 

 If one man raises 35 bushels of wheat, five 



Fif^. 1. Thirty.five-liushel wheat field (Cornell University I. 



other men must each raise 10 l^ushels to secure 

 an average yield of 14 bushels per acre. Some 

 entire states — as, for instance, Mississippi, North 

 Carolina and Tennessee,— have an average of 

 6, 6 and 9 bushels, respectively, per acre. What 

 is the remedy? Stop raising wheat, and raise 

 something better adapted to soil and climate, or 



