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it is made ready for hauling in. All that is cut down each 

 day, oughl to be in cock or wind-row by dark of the same 

 day. 



Mr. Cox coincided in the opinion that clover could be safely 

 and beneficially mixed by layers, either with hay or straw. 

 His remarks were principally confined to blue grass, in which 

 he expressed the opinion that our blue grass, and that called 

 the Kentucky, were the same, as were also the Dog Foot 

 and Orchard grass. The latter grass was a valuable kind, as 

 affording an early pasture, and as growing well in the shade. 



Mr. Cockrum, of Gibson, spoke at considerable length up- 

 on the difference, in appearance, of the Kentucky and the 

 common blue grass. He had always supposed them to be 

 different species. He regarded Indiana as a grass State. He 

 had never seen our grasses grow further south than about 

 the middle of the State of Mississippi. It ceased to grow 

 when the Spanish moss and the magnolia niade their ap- 

 pearance. 



The mode he adopted to put new grounds in timothy, was 

 this. He felled the trees in piles, as nearly as could be done, 

 then left them lie for over a year, and in the fall burnt them. 

 He then sowed the seed and harrowed it in. The first sea- 

 son he had a good crop, for the potash produced by the burnt 

 timber, brought the grass forward rapidly. It required two 

 years' growth to make the first crop of red top good. Some 

 grasses will grow well in the shade, but the more sun they 

 could get, the stronger and more nutritious was the grass. 

 Green trees injured it as they do corn and other green culti- 

 vated crops. 



Mr. Holloway said that surprise had been expressed of a 

 statement made, that clover grew eight feet in height, and 

 that it was so thick and long that it had to be beaten down 

 before it could be turned under with the plow. Coleman, in 

 his work on English Agriculture, says that he saw in that 

 •country, clover stalks so thick that walking canes were made 

 out of them. As a fertilizer he regarded clover highly, for 



