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season, until a satisfactory amount of seed has developed on the 

 plant, and then he puts in a disc and discs that seed down into 

 the ground, and thus gets his re-seeding. That is all he does 

 and he is getting along very well with it. We have not been 

 able to work it just that way yet. We have not tried it. It may 

 work all right. > 



Ques. What kind of millet did you use? 



Prof. Stewart: This was the German millet. The Hunga- 

 rian is a little bit larger and longer in its season of growth, but 

 it doesn't make so very much difference. The millet did very 

 well, you will notice. From the view point of the tree itself we 

 have been throwing out some of these cover crops because 

 logic indicated that they were not as good as some others. In 

 other words, we have discarded some plants because they were 

 not nitrogen gatherers and here are nitrogent gatherers that are 

 way down, while millet, a non-nitrogen gatherer, is way up in 

 its influence on the tree. 



Ques. Does millet absorb a great amount of moisture? 



Prof. Stewart : Apparently not. The moisture draught is 

 not nearly so high as it is in some plants, and there is this about 

 millet, — it stands up erect in the fall and catches the snow win- 

 ters, thus accumulating a certain amount of moisture, and there 

 is no growth in the spring to furnish any possible moisture com- 

 petition with the tree at that time. 



Ques. In using any of those cover crops, do you recommend 

 continuing the tillage as long as possible, up to the first or the 

 middle of July, before you seed, or would you seed fairly early ? 



Prof. Stewart : I would continue my cultivation at least to 

 the middle of July before I seeded the majority of my cover 

 crops. I don't know just what you would have to do. 



Remark: The point was this: If you seed early you get a 

 growth for mulch. 



Prof. Stewart : Well, I wouldn't want that, for the reason 

 that in a case of that sort you would be growing your millet 

 vigorously at a time that the trees needed the moisture very 

 badly themselves. I would want a mulch around those trees at 

 the very time you are growing these plants to get a mulch. 



Ques. What was the difference in that experiment No. 218? 

 The mulch effect is less. 



