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QUESTION: Is it best to plow down the full-grown crop of scar- 

 let clover, or tirst to make the crop into hay and then plow the field 

 for corn or other crops? 



PROF. MASSEY: It depends upon whether a man can feed it 

 profitably or not. I think as a rule it is harder to cure than any 

 other clover, in my experience, and I would generally plow it under. 



QUESTION: How would you thicken an alfalfa plot? 



PROF. MASSEY: By harrowing it over and sowing in some more 

 seed. 



QUESTION: What price should we be able to get float for per 

 ton? 



PROF. MASSEY: About seven dollars and a half. 



QUESTION: In a corn, clover and grain rotation, will you give 

 more of the details of the sowing and harvesting of these different 

 crops? 



PROF. MASSEY: Well, take "The Practical Farmer." 



MR. HUTCHISON: Mr. Chairman: We are to have to-night a 

 memorial address by Mrs. Wallace, and I move that an invitation 

 be extended to Prof. Massey to deliver a talk of ten minutes and to 

 Joel Herr, after Mrs. Wallace delivers her address. 



The motion was duly seconded. 



DEPUTY SECRETARY MARTIN: Mr. Chairman, kindly let Mr. 

 Nelson make a statement which may give more light upon the mat- 

 ters involved in this motion. 



MR. NELSON: Mr. Chairman, I have been asked to invite the 

 visiting comrades who are here to remain at the Memorial Service 

 which will take place this afternoon. I understand that the address 

 of Mrs. Wallace will come immediately after the services which are 

 to be held here. 



The DEPUTY SECRETARY: Mr. Chairman, I would just briefly 

 state that this Memorial Service is of a greater importance and ap- 

 peals more directly to our hearts and feelings than any other service 

 or any other holiday in the United States, and we gladly join with 

 the Grand Army of the Republic in this service, and yield a portion 

 of the afternoon's program for that purpose, and if it is agreeable 

 to the Grand Army and their portion of the program, we will join 

 and have Mrs. Wallace follow with her address which is given on 

 the program for this evening, and then the motion of Mr. Hutchi- 

 son that the veterans who belong to this convention, be invited 

 to take part in the program in the Memorial Service for this after- 

 noon, and then after the services are concluded, if time will per- 

 mit, we will take up the round-up section, devoted to the matter of 

 local institute management. 



We probably will have finished this service about two o'clock or 

 thereabouts. I make this suggestion in order that we may all join 

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