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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 will come 
by use. 
