. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 372 Missouri Agricultural Report. except under exceptional circumstances. To absolutely maintain fertility on the average upland requires not only a careful system of crop rotation, but the feeding back of crops in addition, as well as the turning under of an, occasional legume crop, such as clover or cowpeas, and usually the application of some outside fertilizing material, if the soil is to be absolutely maintained in productive- ness. It is possible to maintain fertilit
. Annual report of the Missouri State Board of Agriculture. Missouri. State Board of Agriculture; Agriculture -- Missouri. 372 Missouri Agricultural Report. except under exceptional circumstances. To absolutely maintain fertility on the average upland requires not only a careful system of crop rotation, but the feeding back of crops in addition, as well as the turning under of an, occasional legume crop, such as clover or cowpeas, and usually the application of some outside fertilizing material, if the soil is to be absolutely maintained in productive- ness. It is possible to maintain fertility vv^ithout feeding the crops to stock, providing only the grain crops are sold and all the straw and fodder is turned under as well as additional legume crops, and providing further that some outside fertilizing materials be ap- plied, particularly phosphates. Now, to apply such principles to tenant farming, and at the same time to do justice to the tenant himself, requires greater liberality than the average landlord will show. It is possible to work out a system where both landlord and tenant will receive a fair profit, providing both men happen, to be of the right sort, but this can rarely be done in any case under a system of one-year leasage. We shall never be able to work out a system of soil pres- ervation with a short-time system of tenancy. Of course, there are all kinds of , and one frequently hears the expression that one year is too long for many of these men, but it has been my observation that the man who treats his tenants in the right way is usually able to get good ones—men whom he is able to keep for years at a time. I realize that the developing of good tenants is no easy matter and that it requires time and patience, but it is' useless to attempt to conserve soil fertility with profit to the land- lord with a poor Champion, 10 ears Reid's Yellow Dent, buys' classes, Tenth Anniuil Missouri State Corn Show, shown by Harvey Jordan, Shelbina,
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