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Mr. Lyman : Well, I am out of the potato business, 

 and I do not know how it would work now. When I tried it, 

 it was all right. 



Q. I wanted to know whether you put it on clear or 

 not. 



Mr. Lyman: I would put it on by itself, if it is all right, 

 but you cannot always tell with the mixed fertilizers that you 

 buy. I would rather have chemicals on hand and mix them up 

 myself. Then I can mix them up as needed. 



Mr. Fanton : What do you do with your barnyard 

 manure ? 



Mr. Lyman : Grow hay with it. When we seed down 

 our land, our meadows, we give them a pretty good dressing 

 of stable manure, and we are certain of clover. 



Mr. Fanton : That is the time you sow your grass 

 seed? 



Mr. Lyman : Yes, sir. 



Mr. Fanton: You sow clover seed? 



Mr. Lyman : Oh yes. Have to put the seed there. 



A Member: Do you put your stable manure on corn? 



Mr. Lyman : It is not absolutely necessary to use stable 

 manure to get a good crop of corn. Of course, stable manure 

 helps to furnish nitrogen, and in that way assists in produc- 

 ing a good big heavy stalk. I have found, as a rule, that 

 where you have a heavy sod turned under you do not need 

 any more nitrogen than there will be in that sod. I have 

 grown splendid crops of corn with just this. I would advo- 

 cate putting chemicals on the fields at a distance from the 

 barn, and put your stable manure on fields near the barn. 

 But, of course, you must have nitrogen to keep it up. The 

 nitrogen comes into the corn out of the sod the first year, and 

 if you are going to keep it up you have got to put on some- 

 thing else. 



