State Convention—Farm-Banks. 
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kind we can cultivate with two horses, across those furrows, and 
not tear out the sod. You would hardly know in crossing the 
field after the ground was dragged that it was a sod-field. I planted 
my corn on that. The cut-worm goes down with the sod, and the 
sod rots, and by that time the corn is out of the way. I have seen 
corn entirely destroyed on my neighbor’s, who plowed with the 
common plow, while mine was a good crop. The large white woruL 
that Mr. Anderson alludes to, we have not been troubled with. 
Mr. Clark: I have used the same kind of a plow, the Michigan 
double plow, for the last fifteen or eighteen years. I have always 
plowed in the spring, and turned this sod under just before planting^ 
and have had the same experience. I have had neighbors that used 
a common plow and their crops have been used up, while mine were 
saved. 
Mr. Daubner: It is of simple construction, and it only costs 
three or four dollars. You can fasten it on any plow. It makes a 
little more work for a team to pull it. 
Mr. Plumb: I want to bear testimony in relation to this question 
of grass. I have discovered in my traveling around the country 
that there is a great dividing line between those who raise grass 
and those who do not. A grass-growing farm is growing richer, 
the land is improving yearly. On the other hand, there is a class 
of farmers who don’t raise grass. They simply want to raise grass 
for hav. There was one farmer I asked last week, in Columbia 
county, “Why don’t you seed down your farm?” He had eighty 
acres under plow, and he had poor crops. Says he, “My farm will 
not bear grass.” I am satisfied that a great many farmers have 
reached that point where their farms will not bear grass. 
