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ILLINOIS DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION. 



it is worth all it costs as a moisture retainer for that corn in 

 August and September when ordinarily if we have the corn 

 clean the ground is dry as the roads, and it is worth ten times 

 what is costs because it will only cost 20 per cent an acre, figuring 

 on last year's prices of $1.60 a bushel and using a gallon of seed 

 to the acre. They tell me I advocated too much seed to the acre, 

 and it is valuable for a preventive for chinch bugs. When pre- 

 vention grows under that corn, you are going to have something 

 that will prevent the second crop of bugs from doing harm, and 

 that is the crop of bugs that does harm in this country. The 

 first crop of bugs comes and swipes every thing and we have got 

 time to put something else on that ground. The second crop no 

 man can fight against it. Those who have studied bugs and 

 worms, etc., know that any of the chinch bugs don't do anyone 

 any harm the first time, but the potato bug, those little ones^ are 

 suckers, they never seem to get filled up. They suck the life out 

 of the corn. 



Now then about conditions : I don't know whether you 

 noticed it or not. but if you noticed it in the fields around in this 

 county, that wherever there had been peas planted in the corn, 

 the bugs didn't do the damage there. 



My object first was to raise this in this combination so that 

 I could be building up my land and not be tearing it down en- 

 tirely, but if you must do it and want to take everything off, take 

 a McCormick Corn harvester. I know of fields that have been 

 cut wnth it and I have passed along by those fields and saw it was 

 taken up so clean that you wouldn't know there had been any cow 

 pea there. I told a gentleman about this combination and about 

 them taking this corn up. He said he was there when they were 

 shredding that fodder and it was the prettiest lot of feed he ever 

 saw. The fellow told me he had two or three tons of pea hay in 

 that corn, but he got a whole lot of feed. But of course this is a 

 hobby of mine. 



I have been interested in helping the farmers in this county 

 as much as possible. I got a couple of car loads of cow pea seed 

 and brought it down here in car load lots and made a small mar- 



