10 THE FARM DAIRY. 



Increasing Fertility. — ^He will not only be 

 studying how to feed his cows, calves arid pigs, 

 but he will be studying how to feed his land. 

 He will cease to be a soil robber, as he will 

 realize that the farmer who reduces the fertility 

 of his land is a robber without reason, as he 

 is robbing himself. He will, if he has not al- 

 ready done so, get himself out of the rut which 

 was made by the pioneers and has been worn 

 deeper every succeeding generation. No one 

 will hear him saying that his farm does not 

 need fertilizing. He will learn that by continu- 

 ous cropping and selling com in the combelt 

 of Illinois the yield is decreasing annually one 

 bushel per acre. He will know when nothing but 

 butter-fat or butter is removed from the farm 

 there is practically no fertility removed and 

 that his farm with a sensible system of rotations 

 and growing legumes will increase in fertility 

 from year to year. He will make a persistent 

 and continued effort to grow alfalfa, having 

 learned that it is the most profitable forage crop 

 we have when we take into account its feeding 

 value for stock and its marvelous work as a soil 

 renewer. 



Improved Milk Supply. — The dairyman of 

 the future is sure to find that the consumers of 

 milk will require a constant improvement in the 

 milk supply from a sanitary standpoint. The 



