SOIL AND SEED.
The very worst possible combinations the farmer can put his trust in is poor land and poor seed. No good farmer would make the combination, but there are men handling crops who appear to consider any seed, so long as it is seed, is good enough, and that healthy, hearty soil will overcome the handicap of bad seed. And so they continue to scourge the land. The man who employs his brains does not handicap his good land with bad seed, nor does he sow the good seed in the barren ground; he aims to bring the poor land up to a proper pitch of health and strength by putting a little medicine into Nature, by fertilising and freeing the soil, and in the end he gets results. Also, the good farmer gives his land a rest by changing the crop more than occasionally, and while he is doing; these things the unintelligent farmer leans on the fence and talks about the luck some people have,
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 421, 9 December 1911, Page 6
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169SOIL AND SEED. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 421, 9 December 1911, Page 6
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