MARCH 25 



it airy and porous. Now she is spreading 

 the soil she has made over the places where 

 she best can use it. 



The farmer who owns but a small area 

 of ground must content himself with pa- 

 tiently stirring up, over and over again, his 

 little plot. Perhaps he may buy in con- 

 centrated form the few elements his plants 

 are robbing from the soil, and throw them 

 back again in the form of fertilizers. Na- 

 ture is richer in land and may be more 

 prodigal. She will be content on her high- 

 lands with a more meagre crop. But it is 

 the meadows of her farm she dearly loves. 

 It is into them she pours out her best re- 

 sources, and they reward her by giving her 

 their most lavish returns. On that old 

 backbone of the mountain amongst the 

 crags of gneiss and granite, she has been 

 breaking up and getting ready for trans- 

 portation the alumina and potash and the 

 magnesia. From that rounded knob she 

 has slowly been loosening the lime; from 

 the edges of these cliffs she has been crack- 

 ing off the sandstone. So, all winter 



