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the stubble during the winter the bugs are worse 

 on your corn the next year. I was not able to 

 'ferret 7 it out, but you see now that the old man was 

 right. And I can tell you another thing, sonny; 

 I never plant corn where I had corn the year before, 



FIG. 22. "I have made crops when others failed." 



and whenever I can do it I plant as far away as 

 possible from where corn was before. You don't 

 believe that this is important, do you?" 



"I do, Mr. Welden," Johnny replied; "you are 

 one of the very best farmers of this section, and I 



