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GARDEN YARD 
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 doit? 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 
will 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 humus 
from one crop of crimson clover plowed down, 
will hold fifty tons more water to the acre than 
soil that isnot. If you figure how much water 
