FOR BETTER CROPS 3/i 



keep bowling alontr in their growth and in their ever-increasing 

 ability per capita to purchase meat as well as bread. 



The world's most rapid expansion of acreages of grain and 

 live stock production was passed during the earUer years of 

 railway and steamship transportation when the body of the 

 world's great continental prairies was upturned with the plow. 



The next expansion of production will no doubt be largely 

 due to the better farm methods and the better breeds and 

 varieties which the bounding growth of agricultural science is 

 ready to bring forth. 



Every Farmer Should Plan His Campaign — Every farmer 

 should work out his own farm scheme, map it out on paper 

 where he can project it forward ten years or more under a defi- 

 nite rotation system. 



When the ten years are up, the record of yields for each year 

 placed in ten annual farm maps will enable him to average the 

 several crops and determine what each yielded to the acre. 



In the -wheat belt 



Before that time his state experiment station will probably 

 have given him items of average cost so that he can calculate 

 the average cost to the acre of each kind of grain grown and of 

 each kind of crop fed to live stock. His neighbors also will 

 have begun more of system and many of their figures will serve 

 to guide his future operations. 



Let the farmer block out his farm scheme, submit it to 

 farmer friends for criticism, and finally send copies to the pro- 

 fessor of agriculture in his state agricultural college, who may 

 be able to give advice as to kind of crops in the rotation; as to 

 the plan of rotation; also as to the preparation and fertilization 

 of the soil. 



Farm Management Developed as Science — The agricul- 

 turalists of the state experiment stations and of the national 

 Department of Agriculture are seriously taking up the matter 



