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FERTILIZER IS CAUSE OF NOVEL SUIT FOR HAY
From: Elyria Evening Telegram (Elyria, Ohio); January 16, 1915

McLeansboro, Ill. Jan. 16--C H. Anderson of this city, has not lost his faith in the magic touch of fertilizer, despite the fact that the use of same has plunged him into a law suit.  Anderson used fertilizer on his forty acre wheat field.  He got forty tons of hay off the land in the dry 1914 season, while land all about him was barren of results.  The increased yield of wheat more than paid for the cost of the application and the increased yield of hay the second year was clear profit.  He said the land with a verbal contract that the hay was was to be his.  The buyer objected.  The law suit for the value of the hay followed.


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