HIGH FARMING.
Professor Manly Miles—lt cannot, with reason, be claimed that ell farmers should practice a high, or what has been called an “intensive ” system of farming, in which the highest possible yield of crops is secured by a lavish application of purchased fertilizers. Unless excoptic-nally high prices weie obtained for farm products this “intensive,” or forcing system, if practiced on the average American farm, would probably result in a direct diminution of profits, if not in absolute loss. What might be called a more moderate system, adapted to the local coaditions of the farm and the markets, if well planned and consistently carried out, would involve Usscxpense in execution, and although not furnishing the opportunity for sensational reports of extraordinary yields, would undoubtedly pay a greater net r 'fit. Success or skill in farming cannot, the* r ore, be measured by the yield per acre of .the crops produced, but depends rather on the systematic production of fair average results that have been proved by experience to give the greatest aggregate profit.
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Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2600, 7 August 1882, Page 3
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173HIGH FARMING. Globe, Volume XXIV, Issue 2600, 7 August 1882, Page 3
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