ILLUSTRATIONS 



Alfalfa and Corn in Indiana .... Frontispiece 



FACING 

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A Good Crop for a Poor Soil 4 



Red Clover on Limed and Unlimed Land ... 20 

 Turning down Organic Matter with a Gang Plow . 36 

 Red Clover on the Farm of P. S. Lewis & Son, Pt. Pleas- 

 ant, W. Va 51 



Alfalfa on the Ohio State University Farm ... 61 



Curing Alfalfa at the Pennsylvania Experiment Station 68 



A Heavy Grass Sod in New York .... 73 



Good Pasture Land in Chester County, Pa. ... 90 



Sheep on a New York Farm 96 



The Cowpea Seeded at the Last Cultivation of Corn in 



the Great Kanawha Valley, W. Va. 106 



Texas Calves on an Ohio Farm 121 



In the Fertile Miami Valley, Ohio .... 126 



Concrete Stable Floors 131 



Corn in the Ohio Valley 140 



Penn's Valley, Pennsylvania 151 



In the Shenandoah Valley 155 



Plat Experiments 167 



In the Lebanon Valley, Pennsylvania .... 189 

 On the Productive Farm of Dr. W. I. Chamberlain in 



Northern Ohio 210 



Deep Tillage 222 



Making an Earth Mulch in a New York Orchard . 233 



Drain Tile 239 



The Lure of the Country 246 



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