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berries and tomatoes. He has five different plantings of 

 strawberries, the plants on one plat I ordered for him 

 this spring. The name of the strawberry is "Progres- 

 sive." I visited his place on the tenth of October, and 

 we picked a quart of ripe berries and saw lots of green 

 berries on the vine. I believe they will bear until freez- 

 ing weather kills them. He is also the tomato king of 

 the county. 



Corn. — John A. Black, president of the National 

 Bank of John A. Black, one of my county demonstra- 

 tors, sowed soy beans on a plot of 25 acres in 1914, and 

 turned it under about twelve inches deep in September. 

 He then sowed a plot in rye, and on May 15, 1915, about 

 the time the rye started to head, he rolled it down with 

 a roller, and cut it up with a cutaway harrow, and 

 turned it under about ten inches deep, and then sowed 

 broadcast about two hundred pounds to the acre of acid 

 phosphate 16% ; then cut, harrowed and rolled the land 

 until he got a good seed bed, and then planted the land 

 with a com drill about the 25th of May, and gave the 

 corn three shallow cultivations. I believe we can gather 

 seventy-five bushels to the acre. The adjoining land to 

 this plot, under the old way of cultivating, will not av- 

 erage over twenty-five bushels to the acre. Zeek Wy- 

 rick, another com demonstrator, on a plot of twenty- 

 five acres wet-natured land, which had never raised over 

 ten bushels of corn to the acre, in 1914, turned it about 

 ten inches deep, and opened up some ditches and sowed 

 it in peas, and turned the peas under in the fall twelve 

 inches deep. In the spring of 1915 he out, harrowed and 

 rolled until he had a good seed bed. Then about the 

 first of May he planted his com with the drill, and using 

 as a fertilizer one hundred and fifty pounds of 16% 

 phosphate acid, and fifty pounds 41% cotton seed meal 

 mixed, making two hundred pounds per acre. I believe 

 he will raise sixty-five bushels of com on this land. The 

 land adjoining this plot will not average over ten or 

 fifteen bushels of com per acre. 



I have sixteen Com Club boys in the county, who 

 are cultivating one acre each. Their yields will average 

 from 65 to 100 bushels of com per acre. The banks put 

 up $75 for the com show at the Knox County Fair, and 

 my Com Club boys won $65 of the money, Shively 



