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wheat was about eight inches taller than the other, and perfectly green, 

 while the other was turning ripe, and I said to him, "Let's go over to see 

 what is the matter over there where that green spot of wheat is," and we 

 found that the squirrels or some little underground fellows had been work- 

 ing there and they had rooted the ground up, and I said, "Now, they have 

 been subsoiling here, and the moisture has gone down in that ground and 

 it has kept that wheat growing, and you see how much larger the heads 

 are and they are much greener, and the straw is much stouter, and heav- 

 ier." I said, "Now, I am going to send and get me a subsoiler, and we 

 will subsoil all over." When we summer fallowed that ground we sub- 

 soiled the whole thing. 



A DELEGATE: How soon does subsoiling need to be repeated? 



MR. FARRELL: I just told you that we calculated, if possible, to 

 subsoil once in three years. That is often enough. So I had two teams, 

 one on the sulky plow and one on the subsoiler, and I had a boy hired 

 to run the subsoiler after the plow. That is — my boy took sick 

 after a week's work, and a Dutchman I had with me said, "If you will 

 let me pick my teams to suit myself I will run both." So he took the 

 lively horses and put on the subsoiler and put the lazy ones on the plov/. 

 He sat on the plow and had a line tied to the other team and to his plow 

 seat, and he plowed up the whole balance of that 224 acres. Of course 

 he had to get off of his plow when he turned every corner, but he didn't 

 have many turns so he didn't have to get off very often. The furrows 

 were half a mile long. 



CHAIRMAN M'CABE: Now it is a quarter past twelve and it is 

 past our closing time. I am going to leave it to the audience which they 

 would ratheV do, adjourn for the lunch hour now or have this talk con- 

 tinued the first thing after lunch. 



A DELEGATE: Have it finished after we go to lunch. 



MR. RIEPE: I would like to ask Mr. Farrell how much more sub- 

 ject matter he has to present. Maybe he hasn't but five or six minutes 

 more. 



MR. FARRELL: I am not half through yet. 



On motion duly seconded the convention adjourned until two o'clock 

 p. m. 



AFTERNOON SESSION. 



The Congress was called to order at 2:20 p. m. by Chairman McCabe. 



CHAIRMAN M'CABE: Owing to the fact that this Congress had 

 a little work to do we have delayed taking up this meeting almost tweny- 

 five minutes, so we will have to have your undivided attention to get 

 through with the program we have before us at the present time, so if 

 you gentlemen in the rear will kindly come up to the front you will find 

 plenty of seats here. 



MR. ROBERTS, of North Dakota: The Committee on Resolutions 

 has some very important matters to bring before the house, as well as 



