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would tell you you could not get as good a crop from the one as 

 from the other. 



But I must hasten on. The question, "what I have done finan- 

 cially," includes hogs and cattle and sheep. I keep a book at home 

 in which I enter a record of the sales I make. I went over this book 

 just before coming down here, and found that from the 13th day 

 of October, 1904, to the 16th day of November, 1907 (three years) 

 I had sold $3,189.99 worth of hogs— an average of $1,065.39 per 

 year. 



Before I close my talk, I want to tell you how glad I am to be 

 here. I have read so much about your meetings. All of our boys 

 who have been down here have come back feeling better, and they 

 are talking about the short course now, and one thing they are 

 saying is "Our Experiment Station," "Our University," etc. It 

 used to be "The University," and "Down there at the Experiment 

 Station." I tell you Old Missouri's Experiment Station is coming 

 to the front. It used to be you would hear more about what other 

 states were doing than about what we were doing. But now old 

 Missouri is coming to the front and the grand old State is educat- 

 ing us all along the line. 



And in the 60's when we went out to fight, the country furn- 

 ished 77 per cent of the men who fought. So we are at the back 

 of things, and over and under them, and we should seek to make 

 the very best country possible, and all the obstacles in the way of 

 the farmer should be removed. 



In conclusion, I say again I love the farmer. 



ALFALFA IN SOUTHWEST MISSOURI. 



(Simon Bautngartner, Pierce Oity.) 



Until about eight years ago this summer alfalfa growing seem- 

 ed almost impossible, but perseverance has won, and after a great 

 many trials, or rather failures, I have solved a perplexing problem. 

 My nine-acre field in five cuttings produced about 6V2 tons of hay 

 per acre the season of 1906. In 1907 the crop fell short on account 

 of the hard freeze in April. It made about 41/2 tons per acre. I 

 top-dress my field with good stable manure, about 4 to 5 tons per 

 acre during each winter. In the spring I harrow both ways to 

 pulverize and level the surface. About the middle of May the first 

 crop is ready for harvest. I mow one day and usually put it in 



