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can, and then sow our oats, and go over the piece with a light 

 smoothing harrow, and then go over it with a roller. We never 

 harrow in the seed. For sowing clover we usually put on about 

 ID pounds to the acre. 



Dr. G. M. TwiTCHELiv. I suppose there never will come a time 

 in our lives but that we will have some cause to regret some- 

 thing, and I have in mind this morning two special causes of 

 regret. One is that in order to fill an engagement with New 

 Hampshire workers tomorrow, I am obliged to leave this meeting 

 this afternoon. And the other, which is of far greater import- 

 ance, is that because of the financial conditions if this association 

 and the funds available, it was thought necessary to drop out the 

 good work commenced a few years ago by a few of our enthu- 

 siastic dairymen in the State, in the way of special prizes for 

 young men at our University. It seems to me that if it had 

 been possible in any way to have carried forward that work, 

 it should have been continued, and I hope means may be devised 

 in the not far distant future whereby it may be taken up again 

 and be efifective. For if we are to succeed in the dairy business 

 it will not be because men of 45 or older will change their 

 methods, it will be by the work we do through our young men, 

 those who are just coming into the field of action and who might 

 take up the work of the farm if the subject could be presented 

 to them in an attractive way. It also seems to me that the time 

 has come when this association, which has now been in exist- 

 ence some seven or eight years and has been doing good work 

 along dairy lines, should begin to broaden out a little. And in 

 a simple way I have a proposition to make to you this morning, 

 and that is, that we offer a series of prizes for the best trace of 

 yellow corn grown by a boy eighteen years old or less, to be 

 exhibited at the conference of 1908, the amounts to be $5.00, 

 $3.00 and $2.00; for the best ear of yellow flint corn to be 

 exhibited at the same meeting, $3.00, $2.00 and $1.00; only one 

 entry to be made by a single individual in each class, and single 

 ears exhibited to become the property of the association and 

 to be sold at auction, before the close of the conference, under 

 the condition that the seed shall be kept by itself and the party 

 shall exhibit a trace of corn from this field in 1909. The com- 

 petitors shall furnish a complete statement of the kind of soil, 

 kind of fertilizer, and the facts connected with the growing of 



