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go to town and sell peanuts. Some of these men 

 who utterly fail to comprehend the laws of wheat 

 culture may be good "coon dogs," after all. 



It will be said that if the yield per acre be 

 doubled, the market will be so flooded that no one 



Fig. 2. Eight-bushel wheat Held, ou a farm adjoining that sliowu iu Fig. 1. 



will receive profits. This is the old scarecrow. 

 No farmer can control the prices of his product. 

 The law of supply and demand is inexorable. 

 What he may do is to improve quality, dimin- 

 ish cost, reduce area, find the best market 

 and the products most sought, and increase the 



