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humus-maintenance be introduced. In the past 

 this soil-miner has been only a sojourner in the 

 land with his face set toward the new country of 

 our unconquered West. Recently he and we have 

 rather suddenly awakened to the fact that there 

 are no more great undiscovered agricultural em- 

 pires in America, and this has resulted in much 

 writing and orating and taking stock of our agri- 

 cultural resources. 



There is another and very much higher type of 

 farmer who is a gardener and fruit-grower rather 

 than a dairyman. In localities favored as to soils 

 and market conditions, horticulture has possibili- 

 ties of production and profits that are undreamed- 

 of in dairying. Always, however, large areas of 

 the less favored lands of this country can best be 

 utilized in maintaining cows. There are some con- 

 spicuous examples of successful fruit-growing on 

 lands that do not readily lend themselves to gen- 

 eral crop production, but broadly speaking our 

 dairy lands are those which, on account of de- 

 ficient plant-food, steepness, presence of stone or 

 poor drainage, are not utilized for cereal cropping 

 and at the same time have no horticultural adapta- 

 bility. 



Just which farms and localities belong to this 

 category is a matter of individual judgment and 

 community experience. Perhaps 75 per cent of 

 New York and an even larger proportion of New 

 England farms will find their best possibilities 



