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even in a quart of them, but I suppose there are about eight 

 seeds to a square inch. Some say twenty pounds clover and 

 half a bushel of herds-grass to the acre. 



It seems to me too bad to feed late cut hay to cattle. 

 There is a man near us who never begins to cut his hay until 

 September. You can trace his line by the grass standing 

 while all his neighbors have cut theirs. He has much foul 

 meadow on his farm. Late cutting does not make so much 

 difference with that as with English hay. I have had a little 

 experience with Alsike clover. It usually will last three 

 years. 



Mr. Robinson. I have sowed Hungarian grass twice. 

 The first time I had a good crop. The second year I sowed 

 it the crop was rather light. I cut it about the time I cut 

 my grain. It makes good fodder. 



Mr. Brackett. In regard to this^ Hungarian grass. Some 

 years ago I grew some of it, when it was first introduced. I 

 grew it for the seed and let it ripen in the field. In the 

 winter, as we fed it out to stock, so far as we could judge it 

 was equal to the best hay we had in the barn. There is a 

 large amount of foliage, and it makes a very good fodder. 

 It is my impression it would be a good supplementary crop. 

 It is an annual grass, of course. 



Mr. Harris. I raised about half an acre of it last year, 

 and I am feeding it now to a horse which I am driving, and 

 I regard it as the best kind of hay. My horse eats it well 

 and seems to love it, and I am fully satisfied that it is a crop 

 worth raising, and it makes a handy supplement. I used 

 half a bushel of seed to the acre. It was a piece of old grass, 

 that would have been hardly worth mowing, and I plowed it 

 and sowed this Hungarian seed about the first of July and 

 cut it about the first of September. The fertilizer which I 

 used was the Stockbridge. The President of the New Eng- 

 land Agricultural Society stated in Portland last fall, that he 

 cut eighty tons of it, and regards it as the best hay he has 

 on his farm. I would not advise any farmer to try to raise 



