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and put down four inches thick, and lath on top of that. But we had 

 trouble until cemented over. 



Mr. Dorsey: You spoke of whole soja beans for your silo? 



A. Fill with soja beans. 



Q. You say your corn in yoour section is not healthy feed for your 



€0W ? 



A. Yes sir. 



Q. How far north in the states do you think soja beans could be 

 grown? 



A. They have been grown in Massachusetts and in some parts of 

 Canada to make a silo crop. Have experimented with other beans and 

 tried them and would not be satisfactory. Soja beans were not satis- 

 factory first or second year. 



Q. Would you think the soja bean could be grown? 



A. I should just keep at it, but you will not be satisfied until you 

 get the mammoth soja bean and cultivate it right. 



Q. Some sixty miles from here several of us around Alton have 

 «x;p.erimented growing soja beans for the last three or four years, and we 

 have almost given up in disgust. Hov/ do the southern cows make a 

 success oi it for dairying. Would it be practical to grow soja beans and 

 <5orn together? 



A. I think so. We have mixed maize with them and put them in 

 the silo together. 



Q. How many planted to the acre? 



A. Half a bushel. 



Mr. Kennedy: Explain to the people when is the proper time to cut? 

 What season? 



A. We have raised corn for six years. It was cut when the leaves 

 showed it had no ears, when it showed in a glazed condition; would 

 fhow a little ripening. I don't know just when to cut it. 



