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A LETTER TO THE STUDENT 



field. The general procedure, howeyer, should be the same. 

 Know your object, or -svhat you wish to find out ; proceed 

 hy securing a plot of ground and following carefully the plan, 

 which is to test your theories ; and finally, think over your 

 results ver)' carefully, turning them over and over in your 

 mind, as we say, so that you may not finally reach a conclu- 

 sion that is untrue, or one that is only partly true. 



Winners of a corn growing contest. 



A great many people will be interested in your conclu- 

 sions, especially if they prove to be accurate and true, for 

 the principal way of securing the much needed increase in 

 our crop yields is not to farm more land, since the best of it 

 is now under the plow, but to increase the yield per acre of 



that which we are now farming. 



J. C. CUNXIXGHAM. 

 W. H. LANCELOT. 



