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bushels of this wheat. We took four bundles of that wheat to the fair, 

 and four bundles of barley and four bundles of oats, and took a prize for 

 all of them. My fall wheat, as I said, I have raised a great many kinds, 

 but I have come to the conclusion on my farm there is none equal to 

 the Gold Coin. It is a splendid wheat. Millers up there say it is No. 1 

 milling wheat. Loftus wheat is a good wheat, but it grows tall and it 

 has a very small straw and it will fall over, and if you have a rain and a 

 little wind it will fall over. But the Gold Coin has a good stiff straw and 

 stands up, and if you will notice nearly every kind of wheat one inch 

 from the top of the head it tapers off and comes to a sharp point, while 

 the Gold Coin looks as if it had been cut off where it begins to taper, 

 and it is as large at the head as anywhere, and has good plump kernels 

 at the head, just as plump as it is in the middle or anywhere. It yields 

 fine and it don't smut bad. If you vitriol it you use about one pound of 

 vitriol to six bushels of wheat. I told you how I vitriol. In front of 

 my granary I have a porch where I keep my fanning mill and so forth, 

 sacks and anything I want to use, and about 12 feet from that porch I 

 put a barrel and mix my vitriol in it and I make a trough of two inch 

 plank — take a plank 14 inches wide and two inches thick and one on the 

 sides one inch by six. That makes a trough four inches deep. I put one 

 end on the barrel and the other end on the porch, reaching higher than the 

 barrel, and I get out a bushel and a half of wheat out of the granary, 

 run it through the fanning mill, clean it and sack it and put it in the 

 barrel with the vitriol, and while that is there I go aind get another sack 

 and clean that, and by the time I have got that clean the other sack has 

 got enough, and I take it out and put the other sack in the barrel and 

 carry that up to the head of the trough, turn the sack upside down, and 

 then every particle, as the moisture runs through, touches every side of 

 your grain, and what surplus vitriol there is runs back into this trough 

 into the barrel, and I continue that until I fill that trough full of sacks, 

 letting it remain in the trough until tonwrrow morning, then it is dry 

 enough to sow, and I take that out before breakfast and put it into the 

 wagon, and fill up that trough again in the same way, and that remains 

 until the next morning, and I continue to do that just as long as I am 

 sowing wheat. W e have always got one lot ahead, and there is enough 

 in the trough to do us one day. and we are never troubled about smutty 

 wheat. We use one pound to six bushels of wheat. 



PROF CHILCOTT: The ResolutiQn Committee would like to re- 

 port. 



CHAIRMAN M'CABE: I would just say, I believe that Mr. Farrell 

 is just about through, perhaps. 



DELEGATE from Wyoming: I put a question before, and the 

 speaker was interrupted before he got to it. I would like to have an 

 answer from Mr. Farrell on that subject. 



MR. FARRELL: If you will kindly wait until this proposition is 

 put before the meeting I will answer you afterwards. 



