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or have poor enough soil to get pretty fair growth. I doubt if 

 such legumes are worth much where the corn makes 50 to 75 

 bushels to the acre. You probably won't get paid for your 

 seed. 



Regarding this other system of farming — not at all, as I 

 said, that I think it is a better system, but it is better than no 

 system — wheat produced where we did nothing on the land only 

 .9 bushel; wheat where we turned under the residue, no more 

 than the other; but where we had put on 5 tons of limestone 5 

 years before, this year the yield was 12.8 bushels per acre. 

 Where we put the phosphate in with that system the yield of 

 wheat was 17.6 bushels, and where we added potassium in the 

 form of kainit, together with the limestone phosphate and crop- 

 residues, we harvested 25.8 bushels of wheat per acre. 



I mention this because there is a way to build up land and 

 maintain the fertility of the soil even without live stock, and 

 while it might not be as good a way as the live stock system, it 

 surelv is better than no svstem at all. 



