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essentials, and these can, only be secured by- 

 combining watching with spraying. It pays. 

 Six years of potato spraying at Geneva, N, Y., 

 increased the yield 122 bushels to the acre when 

 sprayed five times during the season. Where 

 only three sprayings were given, the increase 

 was 93.6 bushels per acre. 



You may be discouraged by these infinite 

 details of care and management: but if you 

 have not the time or the inclination to attend 

 to them, that is not a reason for neglecting the 

 study of Intensive Farming. 



It is a reason for not undertaking a greater 

 variety of crops than you can master; a succes- 

 sion of well-chosen plants will fill all the time 

 you choose to give. I am showing how the best 

 results can be obtained, but the most ordinary 

 farmer will find his returns vastly increased by 

 applying as much of these methods as he can 

 manage. 



For instance, at the South, the uneducated 

 negro finds that his cotton crop is often in- 

 creased, from half a bale per acre to two bales 

 on each acre, by merely putting in a clover 

 crop before the cotton. 



Apply what you can learn, as far as you can : 

 the power to learn more and to use it wUl come 

 by use. 



