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his procedure to the ever-varying conditions of the weather. 

 In all agricultural pursuits, as in business and professional 

 life, success waits upon those who have learned what ] to do, 

 how to do it, and when it should be done. And then there is 

 always the further requirement that any enterprises under- 



FIG. 82. A good seed bed. 



taken shall be carried through to an end. School training 

 for the farmer as for the artisan, the person in business and 

 professional life, the housewife or anyone else, involves 

 discrimination in judgment and persistence of effort as well 

 as enlightenment in the realm of knowledge. The successful 

 farmer must adapt the course to be pursued day by day in 

 farm operations to changing conditions of soils and of^crops. 

 He must take into account the varying needs of the farm, 



