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or three tons of hay in place of two tons, his 

 enterprise as a whole will be more profitable 

 when he uses the extra amount of bedding, 

 although so far as the production of a quart 

 of milk is concerned the cost is increased. 

 It may be that by feeding corn to cattle or 

 sheep one will obtain only 50 cents a bushel 

 for his maize, while his neighbor is selling 

 it to the elevator at 60 cents. If, however, 

 the man who feeds his maize year after year 

 thereby raises 60 bushels instead of 40 

 bushels, his enterprise, as a whole, may be 

 more profitable than that of his neighbor. 



As a matter of fact, the Pennsylvania ex- 

 periment station has substantially these two 

 conditions in certain of its fertilizer plats. 

 When for 25 years the conditions have been 

 similar to those where crops are sold from 

 the farm, the yields have been : Maize, 42 

 bushels; oats, 32 bushels; wheat, 14 bushels; 

 and hay, 2,783 pounds per acre. But when 

 conditions exist which represent the feeding 

 of corn, oats and hay and the return of 

 manure to the soil, the yields have been: 

 Maize, 58 bushels; oats, 41 bushels; wheat, 



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