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FOR BETTER CROPS 



A modern farmer must not only be able to select good seed, 

 sow it scientifically, and feed the harvested crop scientifically, 

 but he must be able to sow, till, hartest, and handle the 

 crops economically. To do this he must be an engineer 

 as well as an agriculturist in every sense of the word. One 

 of the greatest losses on the modern farm today is through 

 poor handling of labor, machines, horses, and improper arrange- 



Pumping -water 



ment of buildings. A great part of these losses is the feeding 

 of several horses for ten months in the year to do a few weeks 

 work, and the farmer must learn to arrange his work to utilize 

 the services of his horses all the year around, or he must 

 arrange his work for the efficient use of a gasoline engine. The 

 latter appeals to the writer as a more feasible plan and one 

 which the best farm management is slowly but surely adopting. 



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