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that is cropped. It should also appear that crop as 

 well as live-stock farming can be made to build up 

 the soil, providing care is taken to return to the soil 

 part of the crop that might be fed to stock. It is 

 just as feasible to maintain the land by straight 

 crop husbandry as when it is combined with animal 

 husbandry. It may be cheaper to grow crops on 

 one acre and haul them to another acre for manurial 

 purposes than to feed low grade or unproductive 

 stock and return only the manure. 



These facts give added importance to the use of 

 green crops for manure and to the conservation of the 

 crop residues, the stu1)ble, roots and waste found on 

 every farm. It is not infrequently true that a poorly 

 managed live-stock farm is losing productive capac- 

 ity faster than a well managed cash crop farm. If 

 animals are kept, they should be of such high pro- 

 ducing capacity that they make a profit on the food 

 consumed and the labor and facilities bestowed on 

 them. When one must rely for profit on the manure 

 produced, it is likely to be better to sell cash crops. 

 These facts and the relative price of crop and animal 

 products are some of the things that must be taken 

 into account in a long-range view of the business of 

 agricultural organization, animal husbandry and soil 

 maintenance in any state. 



The more varied the products of a state such as 

 New York, the more complicated is the business of 

 farming successfully. The live-stock adjustment in 

 New York is a very complicated and difficult one if 



