. Farm crops; a practical treatise on the growing of American field crops: containing brief and popular advice on the seeding, cultivating, handling and marketing of farm crops, and on the management of lands for the largest returns. to make soil produce is the test of goodfarming. Without this ability, ideal climate, favor-able situation and propitious seasons are of littleagricultural value. The good farmer makes everykind of soil do his will and become fertile. Thereis no soil, whether it be the granite soil of NewEngland, the red clay lands of the south, the sandysoils of the coastal plain
. Farm crops; a practical treatise on the growing of American field crops: containing brief and popular advice on the seeding, cultivating, handling and marketing of farm crops, and on the management of lands for the largest returns. to make soil produce is the test of goodfarming. Without this ability, ideal climate, favor-able situation and propitious seasons are of littleagricultural value. The good farmer makes everykind of soil do his will and become fertile. Thereis no soil, whether it be the granite soil of NewEngland, the red clay lands of the south, the sandysoils of the coastal plains, the limestone lands ofthe Middle West, the deep vegetable soils of theprairie states or the black lands of the Southwest,that will not become more productive in the handsof an intelligent and industrious man. If the kind of soil is not the paramount object ofconsideration in trying to make farming pay, whatthen is the vital consideration? It is this: knowl-edge of the soil and its management. We must 4 GOOD SOILS BACK OF GOOD CROPS 5 SO know our soil and its proper management thatwe can make it yield better crops; that we canmake, not two, but five blades of grass, or stalksof corn, or grains of wheat, grow where one grew. HOW GOOD DRAINAGE WORKS When lands are drained with tiles the water level is keptfar below tlie root bed. Tlie roots are enabled to go downdeep, their pasture ground is enlarged and they are betterprepared to gather food. Well- drained lands are drier in thespring than undrained lands, and in the summer during periodsof warm, dry weather, the drained lands are moister than theundrained lands. before. These happy ends can be achieved onlyby the most intelligent cultivation, and by theapplication of every principle of improvement re-vealed by modern science. HELPING NATURE All this can be done. The old lands are not ex-hausted and dead, as commonly supposed. Mostof them are simply sick and tired and heartbroken O FARM CROPS through abuse, neglect and cruelty
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