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expenses of the railroad farms have been slow to accept the 

 so-called scientific methods. They have, however, been 

 helped in some details of potato production. 



The farmer who has accomplished these results deserves 

 the utmost respect. He has shown great originality 

 and has shown what high yields can be secured. They 

 have another value in showing us what possibilities we 

 have for the future, when conditions may possibly warrant 

 more intensive methods. We need not be alarmed as to 

 how we shall be fed in the future. It is always desirable 

 to have such experiments, just as it is desirable to have 

 experiments with aeroplanes. But to exploit such 

 methods as an example for farmers to follow is as foolish 

 as it would be for a farmers' society to try to demonstrate 

 to the railroad that it could secure more business if a nice 

 passenger station were built at every crossroad. The 

 increased returns are easy to secure, but an increased 

 profit is a different matter. Probably farmers, as well as 

 railroads, can make more by a little more intensive methods, 

 but not by trying to secure maximum crops. 



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114. Adaptation to conditions. What intensive meth- 

 ods it will pay to use in dairying depends on many 

 factors, chief among which are the relative prices of feed, 

 labor, and milk. Near some of the large cities in Germany 

 very intensive methods pay best. Land, feed, and milk 

 are high in price, and labor is cheap. Under such condi- 

 tions the problem is largely one of getting the greatest 

 amount of feed from an acre. The soiling system is then 

 used. All the feed is cut and carried to the cows, because 

 in this way more stock can be kept on a given area. In 



