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of farming. Authentic records exist of yields of over 60 bushels per 

 acre, without fertilizers of any kind. The average yield 

 L-rop Yieios. -g j^^j. ^j^j, large by any means, but this shows w^iat the 

 soil is capable of in a goo:l season. We have farmers here who get 40 

 bushels per acre right along. No soil in the world laughs louder when 

 it is tickled than the Palouse country soil. The 40-bushel farmer is 

 the man who studies his business, reads good agricultural literature^ 

 gets the free bulletins from the State Experiment Station, visits the 

 Station farm when he is in Pullman, attends the farmers' institutes,. 



Kxhibit from Kxperiment Station Farm, Pullman, at Spokane Exposition, 

 keeps livestock, and is not afraid to think and work too. 



Wheat raising has been so nearly universal that most farmers do not 

 yet know what other crops can be grown here. The State Experi- 

 ment Station has geen growing everything it could hear of during the 

 Alt r* A P^^^ eight years, and many progressive farmers have 

 grown other things than wheat, so that we know that 



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* many other crops do just as well as wheat. In fact, we 



can grow anything that grows in Wisconsin and Southern Minnesota. 



