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orchard grass. It comes very early in the spring and it stays 

 by us. Now, about these new varieties of grass seed: Of 

 course they are high, but that is because there is very little call 

 for them, and those who keep them in stock must sell them for 

 more money. If there was more call for them, there would 

 soon be plenty in the market at lower figures." 



Mr. Chester : '* It does not take much seed to seed a little 

 ground and any farmer can soon have seed to put upon the 

 market. Now, about orchard grass, I want to say to the dairy- 

 men of Illinois that you need not open your silo in the hot dry 

 months if you have plenty of orchard grass; the time never 

 came in central Illinois during the driest of all seasons in which 

 orchard grass did not make at least something of a growth; I 

 have never seen the time when red clover will start at all, that 

 orchard will not grow right along, and I have found no time in 

 the driest weather, after my orchard grass pasture has been 

 eaten down closely, that in ten days time I have not a good bite 

 again, and that has been the rule all through the ten years I 

 have had the orchard grass. There are some things that I do 

 not agree with our Professor from Ohio about. For instance, 

 he recommended that grass seed should be sown in the spring. 

 When I was in Ohio we did sow in the spring and we 

 thought we did better, but in central Illinois, by all means you 

 should sow timothy seed within one hour of the time that you 

 sow your fall grain, put it on the ground on top with the grain 

 and the first rain will cover it. Now, I am going to tell you 

 something that may astonish you. There is a prospect that in 

 these dry seasons we shall have another siege of chintz bug, 

 and I want to assure you that if you get a good crop of timothy 

 started with your wheat in the fall, you need have little fear of 

 ravages upon the wheat crop from the chintz bugs. Another 

 reason why I believe in sowing the grasses with the wheat is 

 that if I sow the grain by itself it is almost impossible to keep 

 down the rapid growth of weeds." 



Mr. Boyd: "How much seed do you sow to the acre?" 



Mr. Chester: "About half a bushel." 



