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to clear $300 on one acre than to make the same amount on thirty
or forty acres. It is better for the man as well as the land.
Authentic reports like the one above encourage all of us to a
greater effort in our agricultural operations; they show us that
farming is like any other business, it takes money to make any
large amount of money. Such reports only go to show that many
of our farms are undercapitalized, that is, there is not enough
cash to run them as they should be handled. Truly agriculture is
a wonderful business, otherwise we would have most all been
broke long ago.
Forty-Four Bushels of TiVlieat to Acre
E. L. Wade, of Montrose, Ga., has demonstrated that Georgia
can grow wheat as fine in quality and as much to the acre as can
be grown in the Northwest. His record in 1915 bears comparison.
On six acres the average yield was 36^ bushels. On one and
one-tenth acres of the best of the land the yield was 44 bushels
to the acre. The land was measured with a chain in order that
the figures might be absolutely accurate. On four acres Mr.
Wade also made an average of 78 bushels of oats, of the Fulghum
variety. In cultivating these plots, the ground was well broken
in the fall, subsoiled and the grains put in early.
MONSTER PIG BUSH, MILET BRIGHT FARM, INGLESIDE