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prove the fertility of the farm, and pay the 

 farmer for the privilege of doing it. 



No wonder that Horace Greeley said: "By 

 and by it will be generally realized that few 

 men live or have lived who cannot find scope 

 and profitable employment for all their intel- 

 lect on a two-hundred-acre farm. ,, 



We must remember that ' ' the larger return is 

 won by the farmer who is qualitatively more ef- 

 ficient because he shows greater skill in per- 

 forming his work. He uses better judgment in 

 planning his farm operations, in regulating his 

 field system, in selecting seeds, in choosing tools 

 and machinery with which to do the work, or 

 in the breeding and feeding of live stock. ' ' 



