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shock it per acre, and he said six dollars. My son was on the farm then. 

 He was about fourteen. He said, "Papa, don't you give it." He says, 

 "I believe I can cut it with the binder." I had a wire binder at the time. 

 "All right," I said, "you can try." So he tried it with the binder and cut 

 it first rate, but the corn was so heavy that it would not bind, it came 

 down so fast. After a while he went to the willow fence and pulled out a 

 willow and cut a fork on it about six inches long, and he got it so that he 

 could reach over the elevator box and he kept pushing the butts down as 

 he drove along, and he cut the hundred acres that way and bound it up 

 good with wire, and I had the little ones, the boys and girls, go in the 

 field about every other day and turn these bundles over and they cured 

 splendidly, and I filled my barn, 186 feet long and 20 feet wide, over the 

 horses, and had the finest food I ever had. But since that time the boys find 

 it much less work in plowing and sowing wheat than they would in planting 

 corn, because if you plant corn in that land it will need plowing and 

 working and cultivating so much, and they don't like so much work. It 

 is less work to raise wheat. They would rather raise the wheat and buy 

 their corn. 



MR- HALL, of Weber County, Utah: Will you explain what your 

 motive power is on the farm? 



MR. FARRELL: Our motive power is altogether horses and 

 mares. (Laughter.) Now I had several men ask me to get a steam plow, 

 but I found on inquiry that if I had my farm to break now I would get 

 a steam plow to do it with. I would not think of breaking it up with 

 horses. But inasmuch as my farm is broken up and in good cultivation, I 

 use horses and mares and the colts I raise from those mares — I have 

 something like 25 mares and we have got a number of thoroughbred 

 jacks there, and we are raising colts, and the colts that come from these 

 mares we expect to pay all our hired help without any trouble. If I 

 had a steam engine it would cost us $75 or $80 a month for an engineer, 

 and $50 or $60 for hands to do the rest of the work; it would take a 

 team to haul water, and another to haul coal, and consequently we find 

 that instead of hiring all that work we can do our own plowing and sow- 

 ing and the mares are raising colts, and we are paj'ing for our hired 

 help in that way. 



A DELEGATE from Wyoming: I am requested to ask Mr. Farrell 

 what kind of fall wheat he recommends for dr}- farming, and also what 

 experience he has had with Bromus Inermis on dry farming? 



j\IR. FARRELL: I have tried a great many kinds of fall wheat and 

 spring wheat. But now I never raise spring wheat, for this reason: 

 Sometimes wc have an early fall and the ground freezes up before we 

 get our wheat all sowed, and then we use spring wheat in the spring — • 

 work it over and sow spring wheat on ground that is worked in the fall, 

 plowed over in the fall. You can raise splendid spring wheat. A few 

 years ago I had enough to sow — good spring wheat enough to sow two 

 acres, and we broke up a piece of old lucerne that had been in for many 

 years and sowed it, worked it over right good and sowed it and got 69 



