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seeder to put it in with the drih, but I would never broadcast it. 



Mr. Grube : — I will not disagree with you. 



Mr. Lindley : — It is worth two or three dollars an acre when 

 you can raise the crop. There are years when you plant the peas 

 and they will not come good, but as a general rule you can get a 

 good crop and I have done it for three years, and think it is a 

 good thing to do. 



Mr. Grube : — Take the black pea, 1-3 cow pea and 2-3 corn. 

 I have seen it cut and it makes an elegant crop and shred it and it 

 makes the finest feed in the world. 



Mr. Cobb: — Commercial nitrogen costs 15 cents a pound. 

 Peas will put nitrogen into the soil at the rate of 1 cent a pound. 



Mr. Grube to Mr. Stoker: — Tell about planting corn and 

 peas together. 



Mr. Stoker: — I could not tell you a great deal about it. 

 Where I got the start of that, a man in the eastern states has done 

 that and increased the corn 25 to 50 bushels in five years and so I 

 got to thinking it might be a good thing and Mr. Grube advocated 

 it too. I think I was the first man that did it. I tried it and 

 it was a grand success. 



Mr. Newman : — You are keeping it up ? 



A : — Yes sir, Yx peas and J4 corn and I got good corn and 

 good peas, 50 bushels to the acre and we shredded it. 



Mr. Lindley : — Did you not thresh peas that was planted in 

 the corn this year? 



A : — Yes sir, we had no binder and I cut the corn and cut 

 by hand and the peas cut and I got 12 loads from 12 acres. I got 

 21 bushels seed out of 12 acres. 



Q: — How much corn? 



A : — Late corn made about 30 bushels, but the first year I 

 did that I could take out plants that had 60 pods on- it. 



Mr. Grube: — I give Mr. Stoker credit for doing something 

 that I would not do. I am willing to divide honor with any one. 

 Mr. Stoker went to work and mixed his corn and peas in the 

 planter box. I would not do that until I saw some one else do it. 



O : — When raising peas for hay, I used one bushel and a 



