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

d to assist you in any way possible," a

learn some of the things you know about the soils of Westover.

s not grown a crop in fifty years, and we have other land

tation do yo

or oats and seed down to clover and timothy. We then try to cut hay from the land for two years, and afterward we use the field for pasture for six or eight years, or until finally it p

w one crop of corn on the same fiel

nearly a hundred acres of small grain, and we cut hay from somewhat more than hundred acres, thus leaving perhaps five h

we see about here formerly

ave some timber land that, so far as I have been able to learn, was never under cultivation; and the character of the trees is different on that land. There you wi

been completely abandoned for agricultural purposes; and even some of the large plantations were poorly managed, one part having been cropped continuously until too poor to pay for cropping, while the remainder was al

as productive as when they were fi

a hundred pounds of tobacco,-and this was later increased to one hundred fifty pounds,-to be used in payment of passage for young women who were thus enabled to come to America; and there was a very distinct understanding that only those who had come forth with the tobacco were eligible as suitors for the hand of any 'imported' maiden. As a matter of fact some such arrangement as this was almost a necessity," said Mr. West, as he noted Adelaide's almost incredulous look. "Among the first

rally most of them did become the wives of those who were able to offer them a husband's love and a home with more of life's comforts perhaps than they had ever known before. They were at