92 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



I could never mow that field in the world where it had been 

 spread, and I intended to have it raked up and taken from 

 the ground, but neglected it from some reasons until the 

 grass started, and then it could not be done. When I came 

 to mow my grass, I should never have known from the mow- 

 ing that any straw had been spread there. It had gone 

 somewhere, and it did not bother me about the hay in the 

 least. 



Mr. Briggs. I want to ask Mr. Harris the question, if in 

 the application of manure he does not fi.nd he can get on his 

 ground earlier by six or eight days when the manure is 

 applied in the fall, than he can when aj^plied in the spring? 



Aks. I think that is a fact. I think it is a o^ood thino: as 

 regards getting on the land in the spring, and also through 

 the fall and winter your land is better off wath the manure 

 upon it, and in the spring is more pliable and better fitted 

 for your seed. I may be wrong in my theory, but think I 

 am correct. 



Dr. North. Do you harrow it in ? 



Axs. If I put it on in the fall I should put a harrow on. 



Mr. ILvRRis. In comins: here I was o^lad to see so much 

 fall plowing, and I would like to know what you intend to 

 plant on your lands you plow in the fall. 



Axs. Everything, corn, potatoes, wheat, etc. 



Mr. ToLMAN. Some four or five years ago I had a piece 

 of land bearino; orrass. I had some ashes and waste lime. I 

 got ready to plow and plowed a little strip, hauled and spread 

 the ashes on the ground. I continued in that way. I would 

 plow a little piece when I had ashes to put on, and put them 

 on, from haying time until fall. Well, the most marked 

 difierence w^as to be noticed where the ashes were spread — a 

 decided change for the better being observed. 



