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which will more than feed one cow. And then in the next two 

 years you can raise i-h to 2 tons of clover per acre. A great 

 many people think they can raise more than that, but if you have 

 never weighed it you will be deceived in the weight of your 

 clover. It weighs heavy when green but dries out amazingly. 

 According to our experience, one and one-half to two tons is a 

 heavy crop of clover. You can make every acre of tillable land 

 on your farm feed a cow for 200 days. If a man has 25 acres 

 or 50 acres, he can know just about how many cows he can make 

 that carry, if he will follow this system of rotation of crops. 

 There are a number of farms that I know of in this State, which 

 will carry a cow to every acre. This can be done, but how many 

 are there who do it? How many of you do one-half as well? 

 You know all these things that I am telling you, but it is one 

 thing to know them and another thing to do them. This mat- 

 ter has to be iterated and re-iterated, until some will get the idea 

 and go away and profit by it. Then another, seeing the result 

 of their work, will catch the idea inadvertently, and that is the 

 way we have to reach the great majority of farmers. They 

 will not come out to these meetings, and it is through the more 

 intelligent and more industrious ones that we reach the mass 

 of the people. 



I always like to stand up before an audience like this, teeming 

 with intelligence, met here for a purpose. I hope that you will 

 treasure up what you get here, — not from what I have said as 

 I have talked to you time and again, but from what some one 

 will say, even if it is on the same subjects that have been talked 

 year after year, and will carry it home and profit by it. I have 

 just thrown off these few ideas in a broken way, and if any of 

 you can catch any idea that will do any good, I am thankful 

 for it. 



Ones. What amount of seed do you use for oats and peas? 

 Are they sown at the same time? And how much clover seed 

 do you use per acre? 



Ans. I usually sow a bushel of peas to the acre and two 

 bushels of oats. It depends upon the kind of oats. We gen- 

 erally buy our seed, and sometimes we get oats that are as early 

 or earlier than the peas. Ordinarily we intend to sow our peas 

 about three or four days prior to sowing the oats. We put 

 them in with a big cultivator, harrowing them in as deep as we 



