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PRODUCTION PER MAN. 



High yield per acre must be secured economically and return to 

 the farmer a good profit to be of any significance to him. High yield 

 per man as well as high yield per acre was attempted in this demon- 

 stration. 



The proper balance between production per acre and production 

 per man is what determines the farmer's income and the standard of 

 living that he can afford. Production per man must be kept high in 

 this country if we are to keep intelligent people farming the land and 

 if we are to produce a surplus of food for people in other occupations. 



vated with a weeder to kill the weeds in the row. Later it 

 was cultivated three or four times with a two-row cultivator. 

 The amount of work put upon the preparation of the land 

 and tilling the crop was the usual amount under good farm 

 conditions. 



The accompanying cuts show the manner in which the 

 soil was tilled and the corn crop grown and handled. 



Soiling Crops Not Economical. 



The second year of the demonstration one and a half 

 acres of soiling crops, oats and Canada peas, were seeded 

 together as early in the spring as the ground could be 

 worked, and these were cut green and fed to the cows. The 

 ground was then plowed and seeded to cowpeas which were 

 fed green for soiling just before frost. The third year a 

 poor acre of alfalfa was plowed up after the first cutting 

 and thirteen tons of green feed raised on this land. The 

 fourth year cowpea hay was grown on that spot, and the 

 fifth year oats and soy beans. All of these soiling crops 

 added so much labor and so little feed, as compared with 

 good corn or alfalfa, that they are not recommended as 

 practical. 



But Fine Results from Rye Pasture. 



Rye was sown in a portion of the corn field immediate- 

 ly after silo filling four different years: the first, second, 

 fifth, and sixth years. This bit of green feed was highly 

 valuable to the cows and economical as it required but little 

 extra labor. 



