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such isolation. Usually these hill lands are 

 expensive to work, and they do not lend 

 themselves well to open tillage. Very fre- 

 quently they suffer for lack of under-drainage. 

 If the elevation is too high to grow good 

 wheat it may also be too high for good clover, 

 since clover is usually seeded with the wheat. 



These high and rough lands are not so fre- 

 quently plowed as lower and flat lands and, 

 therefore, they are not cleaned, do not receive 

 the benefit of rotation, and they are likely 

 gradually to deteriorate in physical condition. 



There has also been great change in market 

 demands. Beef-raising has gone out of the 

 East. It was a simple thing to grow the beef 

 and to raise the milk in the old time, but it 

 requires skill to grow and market a modern 

 steer and to tend a modern dairy herd. 

 With relatively few cattle, there is insufficient 

 enrichment of land. The farmer on these 

 hills is likely to practice direct sales; that 

 is, he sells his timothy hay and other prod- 

 ucts direct, removing thereby a large amount 

 of fertilizing value and saving nothing of the 



