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''If I have to move twice in a day it costs me that; I can't do so much 

 work.'' I said, "I would like to get you to thresh on my farm for me." 

 He said, "How much have you?" I said, "I think we will have ten or 

 eleven thousand bushels." "Why," says he. "you are just the man I have 

 been hunting. We v/ill come right, after dinner." We started 

 down. He settled up with the man and I waited for him and 

 took him back with me. I started him down and told him where to go 

 into the field to thresh. W^hen we got down we went through the field 

 to the machine. Of course when I cut that with the header we stacked 

 it into stacks in the center of the field. As we walked through the dead 

 furrow he looked at the stubble, and he said, "How much do you think 

 this will yield to the acre?" I said, "I think it will go over thirty bushels." 

 He says, "No, I have threshed all the way from Brigham City to this place, 

 and I have threshed in places where the stubble is twice as thick as this is, 

 and," he says, "thirty bushels is the highest I have threshed." "You know," 

 I said, "I don't raise wheat for the stubble." "What do you raise it for?" 

 he said. I said, "For the heads." (Laughter.) "Why," says he, "there 

 is not stubble enough here to make the heads." "Well," I said, "we will 

 see after a while." We continued to walk through the field and walked to 

 the machine and he went and put his fingers in the sack where the wheat 

 was running, and he said, "I declare, this is running through faster than 

 I have threshed yet." And he took a handful out and said, "It is beautiful 

 wheat." I said, "I guess you will find it will go thirty bushels or more to 

 the acre." I went to the stack and took a head out and said, "I will 

 show you what I mean b}^ raising wheat for the head." On the one side of 

 the head of wheat there are three rows of kernels, one on each corner and 

 one down the center and the same on the other side. I said to him, 

 "Scratch out that center row, then turn it over and count the kernels 

 in that head." He did so and he counted 26 kernels. "Now," I said, "if 

 I should do as you do in Box Elder County, sow a bushel and a half to the 

 acre, there would not be a thing in the center row." I said, "You count 

 the heads on an acre of land and see how many bushels of wheat it will 

 make." He said, "I never thought of such a thing. That beats anything I 

 ever dreamed of. I am going to tell all my customers what you are doing 

 when I come back." 



I thought last night I would tell the Honorable John R. Barnes, of 

 Kaysville, if I could see him after the meeting, that I will take pleasure in 

 telling him today that instead of their sowing a bushel and a peck if he 

 would have that cut down to a peck he would have raised more wheat on 

 the acre than he did. 



As I told you, since that time we never sow but from 35 to 40 pounds 

 to the acre. When we got through threshing that 110 acres it made 40 

 bushels and 8 pounds to the acre. He said, "I never was so surprised in 

 all my labors of threshing among the people." If you sow the wheat too 

 thick it comes up so thick that it draws all of the substance and moisture 



