. Better farming with Atlas farm powder, the safest explosive, the original farm powder. Explosives in agriculture. Better Farming with x'\tlas Farm Powder census figures as shown by the aver- age farm income. Today the differ- ence between the cost and selling price of a bushel or ton of farm produce is in most lines two to twenty times what it used to be. There is money waiting for everybody who has crops to sell. Agricultural conditions the world over are such that this condition is going to continue for at least ten years. The world's surplus of foods and feeds has been consumed and destro
. Better farming with Atlas farm powder, the safest explosive, the original farm powder. Explosives in agriculture. Better Farming with x'\tlas Farm Powder census figures as shown by the aver- age farm income. Today the differ- ence between the cost and selling price of a bushel or ton of farm produce is in most lines two to twenty times what it used to be. There is money waiting for everybody who has crops to sell. Agricultural conditions the world over are such that this condition is going to continue for at least ten years. The world's surplus of foods and feeds has been consumed and destroyed. The owner of rich, new ground has a very great advantage, because he can secure yields, and big ones at that, with the application of less hours of labor to each acre. His cost therefore is low at a time when prices are high. The sum of the matter is that con- siderable stump land and swamp land can be cleared and drained this year at a cost that will be returned by one or two years' crops; then will follow many seasons in which just as high prices. A stump in a field "kills' a square rod of ground, or more. The roots may not take up so much space, but the weeds and briars that grow about it do. farming business of Europe has become disorganized to the extent that fifteen to twenty millions of people over there who formerly were fed with European home products must now depend on America for their daily bread. If American far- mers do not produce the food, those people do not eat. As it affects unimproved fertile land, this situation brings about an unusual opportunity. New ground has a store of fertility which makes it yield enor- mous crops with little cultivation and fertilization or rotation compared to the requirements of old land. As soon as the stumps are off, or the surplus water drained away, new ground can be planted to money crops, and for several seasons can be kept in them without rest or interruption. The virgin fertility can be capitalized at a high rate
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