He cut it too green, and it shrank badly. It should have gone away over 50 bushels. 

 This is the field reported on the first week in July as the best stand I had ever seen in 

 Western Canada. Special note was made of these farms as having no weeds. 



A farmer, 8 miles north-east of Caron, had a small field of 8 acres extra well culti- 

 vated, part of it in potatoes last year, which yielded him 550 bushels of wheat this year, 

 that is 68% bushels per acre. 



Hundreds, yes, thousands of similar reports might be given from Swift Current, 

 Cabri, Vanguard, Pontiex, Maple Creek, Rosetown and Kerrobert districts. 



— "The Saskatchewan Farmer." 



SIX REASONS AGAINST THE ONE-CROP SYSTEM 



First: — A one-crop system is unsafe economically because it is dependent upon 

 crop conditions and market conditions. 



Second: — It does not maintain soil fertility. 



Third: — No permanent system of agriculture has been devised that does not 

 include a reasonable livestock industry. 



Fourth: — A one-crop system does not permit of economical farm management. 



Fifth: — Under the one-crop system the returns come in but once a year. 



Sixth: — The one-crop system limits knowledge and narrows citizenship. 



Diversification is the biggest and most vital, the most hopeful and helpful word 

 in the story of better farming. It is farm insurance and the beginning of farm profit 

 and permanency. It means raising and feeding more crops on the farm, thus getting 

 two prices and the manure from them — it means something frequently going to market 

 and cash as frequently coming back. 



A well-balanced business insures against losses and provides a much better utiliza- 

 tion of the labour and equipment. 



JUST ONCE MORE 



M. CUM MING, Secretary for Agriculture, Truro, Nova Scotia. 



"I have harvested a bigger crop of potatoes and roots than any farmer in this 

 community, and as good a crop as I ever put in my barns in any season, and yet the 

 neighbours are all talking about their small yields of these crops this year." So said 

 a farmer living in a community in Nova Scotia, where crop correspondents report 

 only fifty per cent, of a potato yield and seventy-five per cent, of the usual yield of 

 roots. "And how do you account for this?" said the person to whom the remark 

 was addressed. "Well," remarked the farmer, "the only reason I can give is that I 

 had a relative staying with me on the farm this year, and when I could not think of 

 anything else for him to do, I told him to go out and run the cultivator through the 

 potatoes and roots." "Probably my fields were thus cultivated two or three times 

 more than those of my neighbours. This is the only reason I can give for my big 

 crops." 



Everybody knows in a sort of a way that cultivation pays, but an extended obser- 

 vation of the farms, at least in Eastern Canada, leads the writer to say that, so far as 

 practice is concerned, the whole lesson has not yet been learned. "How often shall I 

 harrow this field before seeding it downr" said a boy of my acquaintance to his father, 



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