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Updated: May 19, 2025

That the yield of clover has decreased from two and eight-tenth tons to one-half ton since 1850. That the yield of wheat has decreased from thirty bushels to twenty-four bushels since 1851, wheat, grown once in four years, being the only crop worth raising as an average of the last twenty years. No, Sir. Neither optimism, nor ignorance, nor bigotry, nor deception can controvert these facts.

Cyril G. (Cyril George) Hopkins - The Story of the Soil; from the Basis of Absolute Science and Real Life,