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ready in increased crops. We have two hundred acres of 

 soy beans, (our farmers are well pleased with soy beans) ; 

 we have at least two hundred acres of alfalfa and most 

 of it is a success; we have one hundred acres of sweet 

 clover, which is giving satisfaction ; we have a good many 

 cowpeas; we have sixty acres of crimson clover; all of 

 which will add many dollars' worth of nitrogen and 

 humus to our soil and help solve our fertility problem. 



Next in importance has been my work in horti- 

 culture. I have ten orchards under demonstration, 

 which are giving great satisfaction. Nothing that I have 

 done has made us more friends according to the num- 

 ber of people interested than my work in the orchards of 

 Mercer county. We have a com demonstration that has 

 attracted a great amount of attention. We used 150 lbs. 

 of nitrate of soda per acre on this corn and more than 

 doubled the yield. The corn was put in silos. We had a 

 soy bean demonstration which the farmers went for miles 

 to see; it was on tired land. There was 40 acres in soy 

 beans ; we inoculated two bushels of seed with liquid cul- 

 ture from Washington, and sowed a strip through center 

 of field; this strip will make twice as much hay as the 

 beans on either side. It was full of nodules while the rest 

 of the field had none ; until recently it has begun to inocu- 

 late itself. We have soy beans in com following soy 

 beans that are eight feet tall (Ito San). We have ten 

 acres of soy beans following hairy vetch and rye that is 

 as pretty as any crop could be ; we have ten acres of soy 

 beans in same field following crimson clover and rye that 

 is not near so good. Last year we plowed a 40-acre clover 

 field 8 inches deep and run subsoiler 5 inches deep, 

 planted it to com, plowed it six times shallow with Planet 

 Junior cultivators, raised about seventy bushels of corn, 

 followed it with wheat and raised 35 bushels and 43 

 pounds per acre. We increased the yield of tobacco at 

 least 300 pounds per acre with 150 pounds of nitrate of 

 soda on one demonstration. We have one demonstration 

 of cow peas following hairy vetch and rye that is fine. 

 Cowpeas to be turned under and ground to be planted to 

 tobacco next year. 



We have organized seven beef cattle clubs; two or 

 more farmers go in together and buy a registered bull; 



