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much as 16 per cent. There are hundreds of such 

 points always turning up, all over the world, 

 if our farmers would only read, learn, and take 

 advantage of them. 



The farmer should spend his life in studying 

 his own soil, field by field, no two of which are 

 alike. Every field should be divided into two or 

 more plots by marks on the fence and manured 

 differently, the treatment varying as he gradually 

 gains experience. No one can tell him beforehand 

 what will suit any field. He must find out for 

 himself, and the more ardently he applies himself 

 to that task the better. He must carefully weigh 

 and check the results, not for one, but many years, 

 noting the different results from the same manure 

 in different seasons, and the after results of 

 manuring on various crops. Every one can do 

 this, and they may be assured that nothing will 

 be more profitable. A tabulated chart kept over 

 a series of, say, ten or fifteen years, and the crop 

 results of every field, the amount and sort of 

 manure, the year's weather, and incidental remarks 

 would be the most valuable thing a farmer could 

 have. 



The Board of Agriculture issues a journal every 

 month for 4d., post paid, which is a mine of 

 information, experiment, discovery, and inven- 

 tion. Every one ought to take it; it is unbiased, 



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