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not the Ohio farmer make at least one-half as much? Ohio cultivates some 

 three million acres of corn annually. Supposing we added 20 bushels only to 

 each acre, the result would be 60,000,000 bushels more corn in Ohio each year, 

 which at 40 cents a bushel, would yield a return of $24,000,000. Think of the 

 gigantic waste resulting from the careless cultivation of too many acres ! 



The same can be said in regard to the waste in raising poor stock. . Every 

 farmer must keep some cattle, sheep, and hogs. Why not the best? No farmer 

 can prosper until stock raising becomes a considerable part of his agriculture. 

 The natural increase of animals, the butter, milk, lambs, pigs, etc., sent to market 

 add materially to his income. A few forage-fed live stock leave at least one- 

 third of their value on the land in the form of manure that results in fertility 

 and keeps the farm from running down. Only by keeping stock can the farm 

 be made and kept the permanent source of wealth it should be. The keeping of 

 good stock throughout the country creates at once a great industry and makes 

 'opportunity for specialists in various lines of stock-breeding to do good business. 

 That we are making progress in this line is well illustrated by Greene County, 

 which already claims to have a larger number of different breeds of pure bred 

 stock than any other equal area in the world. If all our farmers went to work 

 to improve their stock, we would have in Ohio at least- a half dozen Greene 

 Counties. 



It is a narrow view of agriculture, however, which regards this great art 

 only as a means of providing men with the simplest means of existence. We 

 are interested in the progress of agriculture, not only as a means of supplying 

 the food necessary for the increasing peoples of the earth, but also as the art 

 which chiefly supports man's advancement along all lines, intellectual and spiritual, 

 as well as physical. "Man shall not live by bread alone." It is a condition of 

 civilization that man is not satisfied with a mere subsistence,, but that his wants 

 increase with his development. The modern man is not satisfied with the simplest 

 food, or the plainest raiment, or the barest shelter. Because such food pro- 

 motes health, happiness, and the development of his finer nature, he wants at- 

 tractive and delightful food. Hence there have been developed the various special 

 branches of agriculture and horticulture, and the many arts of milling, manu- 

 facturing, preparing, and preserving the products of the soil which make food 

 substances tempting and delicious, as well as convenient for use. Americans owe 

 much of their success as purveyors to their excellent methods of preparing food 

 materials of all kinds, and to their skill and taste in presenting them to the public. 

 It is not enough that quantity alone should be considered, for, in these days, 

 quality plays, increasingly, a part in food production. Hence the arts of producing 

 choice meats,, cereals of greater attractiveness, etc., which arts may properly be 

 termed the "higher agriculture"; hence also the practical arts of wine-making 

 and canning and preserving fruits, which may be considered a "higher horti- 

 culture." These arts have all been developed in response to man's demand for 

 more refined and delicious food, a demand which is certain to grow more exact- 

 ing with the progress of civilization. 



It does not pay any longer in the older states to grow the staple crops exclu- 

 sively and to sell only the raw materials of food. It may still pay on the great 

 rich prairies, or in new agricultural regions, but the highest profits in the future 

 will come to those who produce a specialty, or manufacture their products into 

 "the highest form before putting them on the market. The profits of the future 

 will be in the dairy business, the canning business, or the business of preparing 

 delicate meats for the richer markets. Through these and similar special in- 

 dustries, farm products are greatly advanced in value, while the women and the 

 girls take a part in productive work. 



