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ter. The average increased profit for milk for each cow was 
$4.72 and for butter $11.01. The greater average increase for 
butter is due to the fact that the milk for 1909 was slightly 
richer in fat than that for 1908 and the butter was valued at 
30 cents per pound instead of 25 cents.” 
Dry Farming. 
Claiming that, “While Tennessee is often looked upon as 
outside of the corn belt, and the average yield is very low, the 
climatic conditions are most favorable for corn production,” 
the report tells how to overcome the obstacle of “a dry July,” 
which sometimes cuts down the corn crop. Its advice on this 
matter is a lesson in dry farming, which ought to be useful 
to small farmers in some parts of this Territory: 
“We can not control the rainfall, and in Tennessee very 
few of us can irrigate, but we can conserve the moisture of 
the earlier months. If, by filling our soils with vegetable 
matter (green manure crops or stable manure), by preparing 
a deep seed-bed, and by thorough cultivation, we can hold the 
moisture of the preceding months in the soil until it is needed 
in July, we can tide over these droughts at tasselling time and 
produce a good crop in spite of them. This is no idle fancy 
of a book farmer, but a practical thing that is being done 
every year by our most practical and most successful farmers. 
If a few can do this, all can do it, and by so doing we will not 
only increase our corn crop in bad years but will increase it 
in good years also. Not only will we carry our State from 
near the bottom to near the top of the list of corn-growing 
States, where Nature intended she should be, but we will in- 
crease the yield of all our crops and will double and treble 
the value of our farms.” 
NATIONAL FORESTS AS NATIONAL PLAYGROUNDS. 
Washington, D. C., August 27. — Before the year’s outing 
season is over nearly half a million persons will have sought 
recreation and health in the national forests of the United 
States. According to the record of the U. S. Department of 
Agriculture, the total last year was, in close figures, 406,775. 
With the finest mountain scenery and much of the best fishing 
and big-game hunting in the United States, the national 
forests, made more and more accessible each year through 
protection and development by the government, are fast be- 
coming great national playgrounds for the people. 
The use of the forests for recreation is as yet in its begin- 
ning, but is growing steadily and rapidly — in some of the 
