The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-12-07
P TACTICAL HINTS
 ON HIGH FARMING; AND FERTILIZERS
War Conditions Have Made Vast Changes In Methods
 Of Running Farms

'FHigh farming can never be a rem edy for low prices" Years ago this statement was made by an eminent scientist-was disbelieved for a time was then tolerated-and is now taken almost as a creed with nearly all agricultural workers. This state ment Is true, as is also the converse. Present high prices of farm crops make high farming possible.
 Years ago the farmers of Illinois, Iowa and Minnesota burned their manure and straw piles, They had to-the piles were in the way. They obStructed the streets of the new growing towns and hamlets. With a soil in the first flush of fertility, and with wheat at low price, the cost of hauling and spreading was not re- turned in the increase of crop. So the manure and straw were burned or dumped into holiows, or disposed of in any way possible. Today the land is past its virgin fertility. Wheat Is higher than ever. It pays to save manure and straw and so even in the far West, farmers are this year, for the first time, building cement feed Ing floors and cement manure pits, using fertilizer, and in other ways adopting measures which lead to high farming. High crop prices have made this possible.
 The grip of the scourge of the seas, after months of warfare, is be- ing felt as never before by the Amfri- can farmer. When the Lusit$n1a was sunk, few men realized Ehat within g comparatively short time the entire tworld would be facing hunger because of the activities of these saw. age implements of warfare Little did the American farmer think that the submarine would threaten his crop yield
 But it has! The war itself cut off supplies of potash. Now the sub marines have cut off Spanish pyrites shipments, greatly increasing the cost of making sulphuric acid, used in war and in making fertilizers. Ameri- can sources of sulphur are being lo- cated and the deposits developed, just as American supplies of potash are being secured, but this year and perhaps for several years, the effect of the submarines and the higher costs of these necessary fertilizers that result, will be felt by American farmers.
 ''1f one has drained his land, and plowed 1t, and fertilized it. and plant ed 1t, and harvested it-even though it be only few acres-how he comes to know and to love every rod of 1t! He knows the wet spots and the dry spots, the warmest and most fertile spots, until his acres have all the qualities of personality, whose every characteristic he knows Of all the places in the world where life can be lived to it's fullest and freest, where it can be met in it's greatest variety and beauty, am convinced that there Is none to equal the open country, or the country town. For all country people in these days may have the city, some city or town not too far away; but there are millions ofmen and women in America who have no country and no sense of the country. What do they not lose out of iife."-Dav1d Grayson, in American MaRaZ1n9s
 If you never selected seed corn be- fore, this is the year to begin. Much eorn was damaged by the frost this year, which means that much corn will be unfit for seed next spring. On top of this comes a world condition which will not admit of guessing. The man who does not know today is lost tom
 Every field of corn which has to be replanted next year means just that much labor lost to production. Every spotted field means less eff cient use of labor, machinery, and fer stiiizer. and a smaller yield of grain. We are all sailing too close to the wind to neglect any precautions which give to success Make every ear and every grain count