82 ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION 



Member : What do you use for bedding ? 



President : Barley and oat straw. 



Mr. Lynch : I sow my alfalfa now, I have been experiment- 

 ing for ten years. 



Mrs. Kepley : I have planted alfalfa again and again, one 

 time the rats dug it up and if you plant too deep of course it will 

 not grow. We are told so many different ways of planting. An 

 Illinois Bulletin says plant one foot deep, the National Bulletin 

 says plant i 1 /? feet deep, a Texas man said plant two feet deep. 

 I have not yet had time to make a success of it but I will 

 some day. 



Judge Lynch : I have no doubt but what this lady will 

 make a success of it, for when a woman says she will, she will. 

 It all depends upon the condition of the soil. If you will plough 

 your corn in the fall, two ton to the acre of limestone, get all the 

 surplus water out, as soon as it is dry in the Spring, disk every 

 two weeks until July ist, and sow your alfalfa between the 1st 

 and 15th of July, you can raise alfalfa anywhere in Illinois. 



Mr. Fair: I lived ten years in Oklahoma. We raised more 

 tons of alfalfa than any State. California gets more money for 

 it and Kansas is third in the production of it. We prepare the 

 soil well, we do not have any trouble in getting a stand. You 

 will not have any trouble if you prepare your soil right. 



Mrs. Kepley: This Texas man ploughed deep. One man 

 told me I should plough my field and then sow the sweet clover, 

 and then the alfalfa would come up by itself, and then another 

 man said I should run a plough right after. 



President : Where is your land ? 



Mrs. Kepley: Fifty miles south of here. 



Member : Is it not a good thing to inoculate it ? 



