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Professor Bkooks. I leave it for the audience to decide 

 whether I said I thought the millet would take the place of 

 the corn. I did not intend to say that. I never thought it 

 would take the place of the corn. 



Dr. Lindsey. Don't you think the gentleman you spoke 

 of made a mistake about baying thirty-live tons to the acre? 



Professor Brooks. Yes ; I said I thought so. I have no 

 confidence in such calculations. As to growing soy beans 

 along with the rows of corn or by itself, I am confident, 

 although 1 have never had an exact experiment to which I 

 can refer, that, if you plant two-thirds of a row to corn 

 and one-third to the bean, you will get more food than if 

 you planted the same row with the corn and the beans 

 mixed, and I do not think the cost of handling it would be 

 much greater. I know there is an idea that two or three 

 kinds growing together will produce more on a given area 

 than one kind, and that is sometimes so. Some recommend 

 sowing two or three kinds of grain rather than one kind, 

 and say you will get more. We all believe in sowing 

 several kinds of grass, because they cover the ground. 

 But the corn and the bean want the sunshine, and if you 

 plant them together the bean soon gets into the shade. 

 Dr. Lindsey has stated that he has had good results in 

 growing them together. I believe that, as I do everything 

 he says based on experiments, but in my opinion you will 

 get more from a given area by planting the two separately. 



.Mr. C. B. Lymax (of Southampton). I think if I put 

 my corn all into ensilage it really does not amount to any- 

 thing to harvest it. I may be mistaken. I know farmers 

 in our town who handle ensilage have to pay ten to twelve 

 dollars a day to run the silo filling. 



Professor Brooks. We put in about forty tons a day, 

 and the cost of handling it is less than a dollar a ton. I 

 have a copy of a very valuable book by Professor Henry 

 of Wisconsin, who gives the results of a careful investiga- 

 tion set on foot by the Wisconsin Experiment Station, as 

 to the cost of putting corn into the silo. It was shown 

 that the average for the farmers all through the States of 

 Wisconsin and Michigan was somewhere between sixty and 

 sixty-seven cents per ton. That is less than we can handle 



