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Wisconsin State Agricultural Society. 
Mr. Hazen: I don't buy a great deal of bay. I do buy some. 
My corn-crop was short this year. I got a car-load of corn from 
Milwaukee; as I said before the convention once, I have a mill of 
my own and grind it a little cheeper than I can buy ground feed. 
I prefer to keep as many cows as I can keep, with the expectation 
of buying some feed to keep them through. I prefer to do so 
rather than not have as many as I can keep, under favorable cir¬ 
cumstances. My pasture I didn’t plow until spring. I planted 
my corn and it came up very niceljL I watched it closely and was 
expecting trouble from the cut-worn. As soon as the cut-worm 
made its appearance I had five or six men working for three days. 
They thought it was pretty small business for a good, strong man 
to be digging around the corn-hills and killing cut-worms. They 
dug out five or six in a hill. If .you plow your land early in the 
fall the cut-worm will not trouble you much. That we found in 
investigating the matter, and talking it over in the meetings at 
Fond du Lac. My neighbors raised corn on sod-land and planted 
an early corn, but didn’t plant until about the first of June. The 
cut-worm is of short duration, and will disappear before the com 
is up. One of my neighbors there, Elder Whiting, is a very suc¬ 
cessful farmer. He says he has not failed getting a good crop of 
corn in that way. He never plants until the last day of May or 
first of June. By the time the corn comes up the cut-worm is out 
of the wa}L 
Mr. Anderson: I have no trouble with the cut-worms. I have 
always planted corn on sod-ground—but with that grub-worm, a 
white worm with a brown head I have been troubled. Plant your 
corn deep enough, and the cut-worm always cuts it close to the top 
of the ground, and it will sprout out again. That grub-worm is 
my trouble; that is the reason I don’t have any old sod on my place^ 
for this worm breeds in old sod. It comes from the May beetle 
that deposits its egg in old sods, in manure-heaps. 
Mr. Daubner: I should like to say a few words in regard to that 
little brown worm. I never lost a crop of corn with the worm. I 
live near Milwaukee, probably on a stiffer soil than these farmers. 
I never plow my ground in the fall. I plow with a plow we call 
the skimmer. It has a small plow in front of the other. It just 
cuts and covers probably four inches. Then your mold-board 
comes on, and turns it over. After plowing with a plow of that 
