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and oats. The men that came first to Illinois saw the richness of that 

 soil. These lands stand dry weathea: better than any land I ever saw. 



They say the seasons have changed and commence to howl that there 

 is something wrong with the adiministration and all such. They will sa^ 

 the seasons have changed; that the Lord had forgotten how to water this, 

 country, and how toi run it. The fault is not with the Almighty, nor the 

 party in power, but it is in yourself. You have violated the laws of the 

 field and of all farmers, and they are complaining, and the f urrowers o'f the 

 land are complaining. Job tells us of the things he had done. He- 

 thought bad farming was as bad a sin as robbing his neighbor. 



Now the f urrowers of the land began to complain, and began to talk- 

 of chinch bugs. There are more chinch bugs in Illinois than any other 

 State, I noticed all along the way here you had chinch bugs. Why 

 chinch bugs are the penalties sent you for not cutting up your corUo . 

 Chinch bugs come to the land like lice to the ripe stalks. It is a regular 

 chinch bug factory in Illinois I tell you. I could not help but notice the 

 difference in the color of the soil on the railroad track, and the difference' 

 over in the field. Your soil is becoming pale, becoming light; in all the 

 ridges it is light colored. Why? Because you have been exhausting,, 

 your humus, violating the laws of Almighty God. Repent and be con- 

 verted that your sins may be bio tted out. 



The next thing you can't grow clover. Proverbs you read: "Be- 

 cause I called and ye refused; because I stretched out my hand and no 

 man regarded me, I will laugh at your calamities." That is what clover 

 says to you. You said you could get clover any time, and now you com- 

 plain because you are slianers, that's what's the matter with you. 



About fifteen or twenty years ago the farmers in northeastern Illi- 

 nois were doing the sin the central Illinois farmers are doing and they 

 wanted to know what they should do to be saved, and Father Clarkson,. 

 Wilson, and I says: "Go to grass," and they wanted to know how to go 

 to grass, and they went to dairying and they got rich. In Kansas and 

 Nebraska there are the same soil robbers. They finally get to grass, but 

 they can't keep as many cows. They can't keep hired men like m^ 



