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dat barley field over there," "Yes, Sambo." "Well, see dem heads what 

 hang over?" "Yes, Sambo." "Well, dem am de heads what got something 

 in them, de heads dat stand up straight aint got nothin' in dem." 



The heads were very well filled, because they threshed out seventy 

 bushels to the acre. 



In 1918 the alfalfa came out in good shape, cut 6 tons per acre. In 

 1919, the alfalfa cut the first cutting 6,200 pounds per acre. At time of 

 second cutting it was rather dry, but it cut 3,100 pounds per acre. We 

 then turned the hogs into it and did not cut it again, only just to clip it. 

 In 1920 we plowed the field up and it yiealded us 86 bushels of corn per 

 acre. In 1921 this field made 32 bushels of wheat per acre. 



In 1916 we had one other field that was a mixed pasture, the same 

 as I have described. This field was plowed in the fall of 1916, six and a 

 half inches deep. In 1917 this field was in corn. It was one of the best 

 looking fields of corn that I had ever seen. I expected a good deal from 

 this field, but on the night of September 9th we had a killing frost which 

 hurt the field pretty much, but not nearly as much as the adjoining fields 

 that had not been treated with rock phosphate. We turned cattle and 

 hogs into the field. The field made us $62.50 an acre over and above what 

 our brood sows got out of it cleaning up the field. In the spring of 1918 

 we put one-half of this field into spring wheat, the other half in barley, 

 seeding two bushels of wheat yer acre, one bushel of barley per acre. The 

 wheat threshed out 55 bushels per acre and the barley threshed out a little 

 over 75 bushels per acre. 



We turned seventy-five head of hogs into this field and they ran in the 

 field four weeks, cleaned up the wheat and barley and pasturing on the 

 rape which we had seeded in for hog feed. In 1919 this field was in corn 

 and made 85 bushels per acre. In 1920 half of the field was seeded to 

 mammoth clover and half of the field seeded to alfalfa. In 1920 we cut 

 the clover for seed and spread the straw back on our land, the alfalfa cut 

 three cuttings better than 3,000 pounds per acre, and we could have cut 

 it a fourth time, but we turned the hogs into it instead. 



Q. One question sir. You spoke of plowing up the mammoth clover; 

 did you thresh it? 



Mr. WEBB: We threshed it and then put the straw on the ground. 



In 1919 we had a small field of Turkey Red winter wheat that made 

 55 bushels to the acre. 



Q. How much rock phosphate did you say you applied? 



Mr. WEBB: Two thousand pounds of rock phosphate per acre had 

 been applied in 1916. 



In 1920 corn made 82 bushels per acre; 1921 winter wheat 45 bushels 

 per acre. In the fall of 1919 we seeded a thirty acre field with Turkey 

 Red winter wheat. Half of this field was a mixed clover. We plowed the 

 clover sod and drilled in the wheat and it yielded 50 bushels per acre. 



The other half of the field was corn. The corn field had been a mixed 

 clover the year before. The yield from the corn field was 44 bushels per 

 acre. In 1921 the field was in corn and made 80 bushels per acre. In the 

 spring of 1920 it was pretty wet and we had a pond of water standing on 

 the wheat, on the same wheat that I have been telling you about. That 

 covered probably five acres. That water had been standing there for 

 quite a while. I began to think the water would drown out the wheat. 

 The ground had been frozen and the water could not get through to the 

 tile. On the morning of the 28th of March I told my wife if the water 

 did not go off pretty soon the wheat would be lost, but that day at noon 

 a tornado came along which took the water all out of that pond and saved 

 us five acres of good wheat. 



Don't understand me to say that I recommend that kind of drainage. 

 I do not. While it was taking the water out of that pond it took one set 

 of our buildings along also. 



In conclusion, let me say that we should take the best care of our 

 seeds that we are to use for planting; see to it that they are free from 

 disease, corn free iruni root rot, then plant on soil that has been rotated 



