It's a wasteful practise that will have to be abandoned, as people here seem to be discovering.

Grain won't pay at sixteen bushels to the acre." "A sure thing," Grant agreed.

"I'm sticking right to wheat, but that's because I'm too old to change my system, and I'm on black soil, which holds out longer." "But you're taking the nature out of it." "It will see me through if I fallow," said Grant.

"When I've done with it and sell out, somebody else can experiment with mixed crops and stock-raising.

That's going to become the general plan, but it's costly at the beginning." Then he rose.