GOOD SOILS BACK OF GOOD CROPS 5 



;o know our soil and its proper management that 



r e can make it yield better crops; that we can 



make, not two, but five blades of grass, or stalks 



of corn, or grains of wheat, grow where one grew 



HOW GOOD DRAINAGE WORKS 



When lands are drained with tiles the water level is kept 

 far below the root bed. The roots are enabled to go down 

 deep, their pasture ground is enlarged and they are better 

 prepared to gather food. Well- drained lands are drier in the 

 spring than undrained lands, and in the summer during periods 

 of warm, dry weather, the drained lands are moister than the 

 undrained lands. 



before. These happy ends can be achieved only 

 by the most intelligent cultivation, and by the 

 application of every principle of improvement re- 

 vealed by modern science. 



HELPING NATURE 



All this can be done. The old lands are not ex- 

 hausted and dead, as commonly supposed. Most 

 of them are simply sick and tired and heartbroken 



