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add to every nitrogen store, to get the best crops for 

 feed, to get the best yields from other crops that follow. 

 Do your work well: farm intensively. Equally as bad 

 as the soil robber is the soil killer the man who kills and 

 deadens the soil by ruthless methods ; who farms large 

 areas by slashes and stabs; who takes and never gives 

 back to the soil ; who farms extensive areas but harvests 



INTENSIVE FARMING 

 Good tillage, crop rotation and an abundance of humus are all back of this crop 



little yields. He is in New England, where his hay yields 

 him a quarter to a half ton per acre; he is in the South, 

 where his quarter a bale per acre of cotton is produced 

 at a loss ; he is in the West, where his corn is but "twenty" 

 and his wheat but "thirteen" and neither is grown at a 

 profit. 



You cannot afford to be classed with this tribe. Yours 

 must be another caste if you bear any respect for your 

 family or yourself. 



Take up the better way, the way of doing things right 

 and square and manly. Farm wisely, that you may be 



