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locate the trouble and we shall know all about it 

 some time. He is having trouble in another field 

 where your cousin Winter Wheat is growing. I am 

 helping all I can, but Chinch Bug and Hessian Fly 

 are causing a lot of damage, as there are so many 

 of them. I have told all my friends and relatives 

 about it, and to-morrow we are going to make a raid 

 on them. They are mighty good eating just at this 

 season of the year; besides it is a great help to 

 Farmer Good to get rid of them. 



"Food is a great thing," Bob White continued. 

 "We couldn't get along without it. Now I like bugs. 

 They are my main diet, yet we must have something 

 else to balance our ration. Now you are just the 

 same way. In order to make a great crop you must 

 be fed the proper elements of plant food. A good 

 example of this is a field of wheat belonging to 

 Farmer Shiftless down the road a mile, that is liter- 

 ally starving to death. He never has grown a crop 

 of clover to furnish nitrogen, neither has he applied 

 limestone to furnish calcium and magnesium; while 

 as far as rock phosphate, acid phosphate, or bone 

 meal to provide phosphorus are concerned, he ridi- 

 cules the idea. Therefore right now, while the 

 wheat plants need the phosphorus to build the 

 kernels, the roots find that other crops have taken 



