ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 

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By Henry Wallace, Editor Wallace's Farmer, DesMolnes, la. 



A slight acquaintance with the history of farming during 

 the nineteenth century will convince anyone that twentieth cen- 

 tury farming, if it is to maintain the fertility of the soil and 

 insure the permanent prosperity of the United States, (which 

 after all is dependent on the prosperity of agriculture) must be 



HENRY WALLACE, 



Editor and Proprietor of Wallace's 



Farmer, DesMoines, la. 



very different and greatly superior to the farming of the century 

 preceding. 



At the opening of the nineteenth century western Pennsyl- 

 vania, Ohio, a part of West Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, 

 Mississippi and Louisiana, and all states west of these, were 

 practically unbroken forests or rich rolling prairies, inhabited for 

 the most part by wild men and wild beasts. The magnificent 

 growth of these forests and the luxuriant herbage of the prairies 



