202 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



Q : In fanning our oats . we had three different sized 

 grains. We put them on the scales and the middle-sized oats 

 weighed the heaviest. Which would have been the best seed to 

 sow, the largest looking kernels seemed to be more hollow? 



A : The experiment indicates that the largest on the whole 

 is the heaviest. 



Q: We mixed the two largest and cut out the smallest, 

 we sowed the largest and heaviest and harvested 80 bushels 

 to the acre. I tested six grains on each ear of com and they had 

 to show a good start or we did not plant kernels from that ear. 

 Notwithstanding this farm had been farmed continuously and 

 no stock on it, we usually got sixty bushels. If we did not get 

 sixty, we were not satisfied. The owner of the farm is the 

 president of a bank here today, he is up in these things and 

 tries to keep up. He has too large a farm, and by the way he 

 got me to go to a meeting held here and I bought seven cows 

 on Mr. Mason's advice and these seven cows made $464.00 in 

 butterfat in one year. We sold the calves at $53 a head. I 

 have since bought a farm and I am still there. 



Mr. Mason : How large a farm have you ? 



A : Eighty acres. Where we sowed one bushel we get 

 70.1 bushels of seed and as nice a lot of alfalfa as you could 

 ask for. Where we sowed ij^ bushels we had more oats but 

 less alfalfa. On the other place right beside mine where they 

 planted at the same time and cultivated it in the same way, 

 they got 2 bushels of oats to the acre less and no alfalfa. 



