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and gave it to man to live upon, to prosper and 

 be happy. In doing so He never hauled a wagon- 

 load of manure or a load of lime, nor bought a 

 ton of fertilizer — and how did He do it? He 

 did it with vegetable matter; and I thought if 

 the Lord could do it, I could do it. This sounds 

 a little conceity, but I mean it." 



As a result of this belief, Mr. Seeds took to 

 experimenting, beginning with the crops that 

 store nitrogen in their roots, such as crimson 

 clover, and with purple-top strap-leaf turnip. 

 But the results were not sufficiently great to 

 please this man, who was after all there was in the 

 soil. He needed some plant with longer roots, 

 and finally hit upon the cowhorn turnip, which 

 wUl grow roots from 9 inches to 2 feet long, 

 thus making available the plant food locked up 

 in the subsoil. Finally he combined cowhorn 

 turnip and rape, and now his soil is the most 

 fertile in his district, and is so profitable as an 

 inoculator of other soils that he keeps fields 

 free from harvest crops so as to have the soil 

 for sale. 



"Bob Seeds" further says that a field filled 

 with the decayed vegetable matter and himius 

 from one crop of crimson clover plowed down, 

 will hold fifty tons more water to the acre than 

 soil that is not. If you figure how much water 



