Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1911 — Restoring Worn-out Lands. [ARTICLE]

Restoring Worn-out Lands.

Where lands have been “cropped to death,’’ as some plain people aptly term it, live stock farming is the surest, cheapest and quickest method of restoring its fertility. In live stock farming the crops grown on the farmare grown primarily for the purpose of feeding one or more classes of live stock, and but little is sold except animal products. On the other hand, concentrated feeding stuffs are purchased for feeding the farm animals which adds to the amount of fertility returned to the land In the manure. Since the animal products sold do not, as a general rule, contain large quantities of fertilising Ingredients, it is easy to rapidly increase the fertility of land by this system of farming.