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wages ; if not, he had best hire out to a neighbor who will 

 pay him wages. No farmer whose time is so used as to 

 bring little or no return for his labor, is likely to have money 

 enough to invest in improved methods. The farmer is 

 interested in ways of earning more than farm wages. He 

 owes no thanks to any one who persuades him to adopt 

 methods that do not pay wages. A farmer can find plenty 

 of ways of working for nothing without outside aid. 



The almost universal method of interpreting fertilizer 

 tests is shown by the following example taken from the 

 very excellent work of the Ohio Experiment Station. 



TABLE 26. RESULTS OF SECOND FIVE YEARS IN A FERTILIZER 

 TRIAL IN OHIO l 



1 Ohio, Bulletin 182, pp.- 145 and 159. 



This bulletin follows the universal error and calls the 

 last column profit. The conclusion is therefore reached 

 that the complete fertilizer used on plot 11 pays best. 

 But the $19.64 is not profit. Of all the costs involved, 

 only the cash cost of fertilizer has been subtracted from 

 the increased value of the crop. 



The fertilizer on plot 2 cost only $2.40, while that on 

 plot 1 1 cost $20.90, a difference of $18.50. The increased 



