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ahead of the last cultivation, cowpeas and rape. In the fall 

 I bought Western lambs and fattened them in the fields. 

 Ever since that time I have been continuing the practice, 

 and I believe it is largely responsible for what I have 

 at present. There are now three hundred and sixty acres 

 in my farm, worth fifty dollars per acre. On fields that 



BOYS AND LAMBS A GOOD COMBINATION 

 The children can fill an important place in the raising of orphan lambs 



once produced little more than nothing I have since raised 

 from sixty to ninety bushels of corn that was good enough 

 to win at the state corn show, and the annual produc- 

 tion of my farm amounts to about five thousand dollars." 

 Pasturing of crops a fundamental practice. The foregoing 

 statements tell in as convincing a way as possible what some 

 of the actual results from grazing down corn have been. 

 Many other farmers have testified in as strong terms as those 



