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up and the corn fell off. One man said they had not had a good 

 yield of corn in the central part of the state this year, as we 

 had in the north, and the reason was because they followed 

 corn after corn and had not followed the simple method of 

 rotation. 



Mrs. Purviance : — I wish to say that in Logan county, just 

 adjoining Clinton, the work that has been done there has been 

 much appreciated, and, as Mr. Hart says, the land is very high 

 priced and farmers have been farming it in agriculture. They 

 have been putting in corn, wheat, etc., but we find that our ground 

 is running out and we find that by taking up dairy work that it 

 is increasing our production, and owing to this I notice a great 

 improvement in our county in the last eight years. We have 

 been in this dairy work about eight years and there is a great 

 improvement and a great deal of interest clown there. We have 

 about eleven or twelve dairymen in Lincoln and the interest is 

 growing very much, and I think this is due to the instructions 

 we receive each year from the university. This year we had 

 Mr. Hart with us, who gave demonstrations in our butter work 

 and it was one of the best things we ever had. We wish to 

 increase this interest and hereafter we are going to try to have 

 this work taken up in every county by the farmers' institute. 

 We believe by doing that we will create greater interest, en- 

 courage farmers in this work and help them to keep up fertility 

 as well. That is the only way we can keep it up. 



We are in the central part where we have no creameries; 

 we have no way of selling our cream unless we make it into 

 butter. We are somewhat handicapped in this respect, but we 

 are working hard and I think the interest is growing and I be- 

 lieve we are going to make a success of it. The university is 

 standing back of us and I think if the farmers will only look at 

 this in the light they are now taking hold of it, we are going 

 to make it a great success. 



Mr. Gurler: — This makes me think of a little incident in 

 our town. One of our bankers owns several farms. As I was 

 going along the street he called me in and said, " I want to talk 



