“7 SOIL 
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 California 
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 corn* 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 corn 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. 
