The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life,

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bushels, we think we are doing pretty well. My husband's father paid sixty-eight dollars an acre for some of this land, and it was worth more than that a few years later and, mind you, in those days wheat was worth less and niggers a mighty sight

y glad to say. But, laws, the land is poor, and you can get all the land you want about here for ten dollars a

ant answered the call,

stopped at

es. He has remained with us ever since the war, except for a few months when he went away one time just to see for sur

no kin of General Joe or Albert Sidney. He's been looking at the land hereabout,

, the mother disappear

seat on the vin

rd, on the train, and, in answer to my inquiry as to whom I could go to for correct information concerning the history and present condition and value of farm lands in this section of the country, he advised me to stop off at Blue Mound Station and

ty-acre farm and purchasing two or three hundred acres in the East or South. My thought is that I might secure a farm that was once good land, but that has been run down to such an extent that it can be bought for perhaps ten or twenty dollars

ts fertility. If possible I should want to make the land at l

t with location and price to suit you; but I think that you should know in advance that older men than you have purchased farms hereabout with very similar intentions, but with the ultimate result that they have lost more, financially, than we w

actices, although I fear that this knowledge will discourage you from making any investments in our worn-out farms. If yo

ize, in order that you can haul manures from town, and perhaps some

oduce on their own land and perhaps even larger amounts of feed purchased from their neighbors, or hauled from town, and who, in addition to using all of the farm fertilizer thus produced, haul considerable amounts of such materials from the livery stables in town. With much h

percentage of such farmers; and in reality they are a detriment to their neighbors who permit their own hay and grain to be hauled off from t

m the farms of the corn belt is shipped into the eastern and southern states, there to be used as food for man and beast, not only in the cities, but also to a considerable extent in the country. Instead of living on the fat of the land, such manufacturers live in the country at the expense of special city customers w