FOOD FOR PLANTS 



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foodless farms would be in a miserable condition and 

 without money to buy food or the barest necessities. 

 In such cases there is no adequate protection against 

 single crop failures. In past years farms at least 

 provided the planter with most of the food his fam- 

 ily required. The "Live at Home" project now advo- 



Privet Hedge at Left and Vines Showing Result of One 

 Year's Use of Nitrate. New Jersey. 



cated by our agricultural authorities is a most com- 

 mendable one. 



Crop rotations which include legumes, give the 

 soils both humus and Nitrogen, ultimately, and in 

 such soils bacteria destructive to Nitrogen com- 

 pounds of the soil do not thrive so vigorously. 



The growing of legumes wherever conditions are 



