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for it; I don't have any money.' I said, 'Yes, sir, I would rather have 

 work than money.' 'I want 15 bushels.' 'How much can you sew in a 

 day?' 'Twenty acres.' "All right, sir, you are just the man I want; , I 

 will give you three bushels or rye a day and board you for five days, and 

 in that five days you can sew 100 acres; that will give you 15 bushels 

 of rye.' 'All right, sir, that's good pay; I'll do it' 



"He came along and I had the rye sacked all ready to sew and he 

 came down and said: 'You haven't got near enough rye here to sow that.' 

 'Yes, I have.' 'How much are you going to sow to the acre?' 'Half a 

 bushel.' He said: 'You don't know nothing about raising rye.' I said: 

 'I don't pretend to know much about it, but that is all I want sewed.' 

 'Why,' said he, 'in Denmark we sew three bushels to the acre.' I said: 

 'I want you to understand we are not in Denmark now, we are in Utah. 

 Can you sew a half bushel to the acre?' 'Yes, I can sew a peck if you 

 want it.' 



"He did it and did it well. I paid him his fifteen bushels and he 

 went and sewed that 15 bushels on five acres. About the middle or 

 latter end of April, I forgot the time, I was going past one day and he 

 called to me to come to his house. I drove up and he said: 'I want you 

 to come over and look at my rye. I went out and looked at his rye back 

 of his house and barn, and it stood about four inches high and just as 

 thick as it could be. I said, 'That looks nice, don't it.' He said: 'I am 

 going to show you how to raise rye this season. I looked at yours and 

 there was one spear up here and another within about a foot of it; you 

 won't raise much on that.' I said, 'Perhaps I will show you how to raise 

 rye this fall.' Sunflowers commxenced coming up in mine and I hired a 

 man at a dollar a day and board to harrow the field, both with the 

 furrow and crossways of the field. After he got through he came over 

 to Logan and when I gave him a check he stuck it in his pocket and 

 said, 'All the rye you will harvest on that piece of ground you can stick 

 in your eye.' Well!' said I, 'I don't pretend to raise sunflowers anyhow.' 

 He said: 'No, you won't raise sunflowers or rye either.' 



"This was in the beginning of April.. After a while there came on 

 some nice rains and along about the latter end of April, you could see 

 the rye coming up. 



Acreage Yields. 



"It grew fine and got up as high as the top of my head and we cut 

 it in the fall and threshed it and it made 27 bushels to the acre. It 

 surprised the whole country and I told the threshing man when he went 

 up to Erickson's to thresh to let me know how much that rye of his 

 threshed. In a day or two he came along and said he threshed that five 

 acres of rye and it just made 20 bushels, four bushels to the acre. He 

 said the heads were only one inch long and the kernels only one-fourth 

 as large as mine. 



Thick Seeding Reduces Yield. 



"Many of you have noticed when you sew grain, that every place 



