284 BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



acre to-day. .Probably that land adjoining, which is in pasture, 

 may have deterioated since that was sold. 



Question. What is the best method of ice calkings for 

 horses ? 



Mr. Olcott. I have used for twelve years the screw calker 

 which you have seen on the table. I have made one pair of 

 shoes last four years. I have three or four horses shod in 

 that way. "When I want them to go sharp, it does not take 

 a long while to get ready. Otherwise, I might have to go to 

 the shop and lose considerable time. 



Mr. Wetherell. Whether or not there is a tendency to 

 ball up ? 



Mr. Olcott. We have that trouble with any shoe that I 

 know of. I don't know that it is any worse in that respect 

 than any other method of shoeing. 



Question. What can we sow in spring to replace the usual 

 hay crop, when, owing to the drought, our meadows are not 

 producing as much hay as before ? 



Mr. Gold. Sowed corn, millet, or Hungarian grass, 

 according to the soil and conditions, will furnish a supply of 

 fodder in almost any part of Connecticut. Sowed corn I 

 should prefer to sow in drills ; millet, or Hungarian grass, I 

 should sow broadcast. 



Mr. Webster. What distance apart would you have the 

 corn in the rows ? 



Mr. Gold. We could spend all the rest of the evening 

 discussing the methods of raising sowed corn and the advant- 

 ages of this, that, and the other method. I prefer to put it 

 in rows from three to four feet apart, and not over three 

 pecks of seed to the acre, that small ears may grow upon the 

 stalks, and that there may be perfectly healthy plants to 

 feed, rather than plants with small and stunted leaves, that 

 never even send out a tassel. 



Mr. Wetherell. Whether fodder corn is not more 

 valuable to raise for milch cows than Hungarian grass ? 



