ng farm crops, while the up-to-date,
so-called general farmer is not likely to be a special lover of live
stock. In like manner, the man may be a successful farmer, dairyman or
horticulturist from the producing side, but be a poor salesman. In
fact, those qualities of mind and heart which make for the best
success from the standpoint of production, whether soil products or
animal products, is not that which makes the best trader.

It is not expected that the young farmer will be materially different
from his hundreds of thousands of predecessors, but the better a man
is trained and the more fully he studies his own adaptabilities and
deficiencies, the more likely he is to succeed in the open country.
For this reason, the young man should be careful to get as broad a
training as possible. It is, therefore, often more important for him
to study those things which he dislikes than to study the things for
which he has a natural taste.

There was a man in our town
And he was wondrous wise.
He knew that if he wanted crops
He'd have to fertilize.

"Its nitrogen that makes things green,"
Said this man of active brain;
"And potash makes the good strong straw,
And phosphate plumps the grain.
But it's clearly wrong to waste plant food
On a wet and soggy field;
I'll surely have to put in drains
If I'd increase the yield.

"And after I have drained the land
I must plow it deep all over;
And even then I'll not succeed
Unless it will grow clover.
Now, acid soils will not produce
A clover sod that's prime;
So if I have a sour soil,
I'll have to put on lime.

"And after doing all these things,
To make success more sure,
I'll try my very best to keep
From wasting the manure.
So I'll drain, and lime, and cultivate,
With all that that implies;
And when I've done that thoroughly
I'll manure and fertilize."
_Vivian_

CHAPTER IX

THE ROTATION OF CROPS

The two essential reasons for a rotation of crops are: (1) The
possibility of obta