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In estimating the relative manurial values of green crops 

 to bring up the productive capacity of our soils, we meas- 

 ure by the amount of crop produced in the shortest time, 

 the elements upon which these crops feed, their capacity for 

 returning plant food to the earth, and especially by their 

 leaving more or less of those elements in the soil which are 

 necessary to the production of the succeeding crop. Nor 

 do we omit to estimate their several capacities for sending 

 their roots deeply into the soil, thereby bringing up and de- 

 positing near the surface the aliment for plants which would 

 otherwise remain below the reach of the roots of many of 

 our most valuable cereals. For the accomplishment of these 

 purposes no vegetable equals the Southern field pea and red 

 clover. In them we find the answer to that momentous 

 question, how and through what means can we, in the short- 

 est space of time, bring our lands up to their highest pro- 

 ductive capacities to meet our own and the varied wants of 

 society. When we reflect that all progress, civilization, re- 

 finement, culture, prosperity and happiness of society hang 

 suspended upon the scale which measures out the feeding 

 capacity of the earth, we begin to appreciate those vegetable 

 productions promotive of this desired end. The trefoils 

 and legumes then begin to loom up in their grand possibili- 

 ties; and the clover and the field pea assume an importance 

 not dreamed of before. Without them, on the one hand we 

 must descend to meager harvests, perishing stock, fast ap- 

 proaching sterility, hard times and general discontent. On 

 the other, by their powerful aid we ascend up to plentiful 

 harvests, fat stock, with the multiplied advantages resulting 

 therelrom, good living, money in the purse, prosperity and 

 contentment. Can the pea and clover accomplish all this? 

 Worked in proper rotation with other crops they most as- 

 suredly can. In the heathen, but appreciative past, when 

 gratitude was manifested by the erection of temples, and by 

 solemn worship to those deities from whom temporal bless- 

 ings were thought to flow, the pea and clover of the pres- 

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