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FERTILITY 



the durum wheat which yields crops in regions 

 suffering from drought, and in 1905 the United 

 States exported 6,000,000 bushels of it; Japan- 

 ese Kiushu rice is doing well in Louisiana and 

 Texas rice fields; the Japanese salad plant, the 

 udo, is being tested from Maine to CaUfornia 

 and giving good results; Kafir corns from Abys- 

 sinia, India and East Africa are being grown in 

 Kansas and other western sections; while the 

 English broad bean, Hungarian paprika, and 

 fruits from all parts of the world, are being 

 tested in all sections of this country. Those 

 400 different types of soil should mean limitless 

 diversifications of crops, and it is fair to assume 

 that the real day of agriculture, in this country 

 at least, is only just dawning. 



The Government is now testing profitable 

 crops for the farms of New England which have 

 been abandoned to the mortgagees. Areas 

 there are too small to grow com* and wheat in 

 successful competition with the great farms of 

 the west, but there are other crops which will 

 yield even better results and command the 

 market. You, who are now coming into the 



* Note. — But com growing is on the increase in New England 

 and at the great Omaha Corn Show a Connecticut farmer won three 

 first prizes. The Flint varieties are especially adapted for the New 

 England climate and soil and open up new possibilities for the 

 New England farmer. 



