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a pasture that I can think of, and then I buy every other kind 

 the dealers can think of. This gives me a succession of 

 grasses throughout tlie summer. For my mowing-lands, — I 

 understand that what I call meadows you call mowing-lands, 

 and what you call meadows is something doubtful, I do not 

 know what it is, — for my mowing-lands I get five or six differ- 

 ent kinds. I took the light that sprung from Flint, — Flint 

 light, you know, — for my meadow-seeding. I take four or 

 five kinds, at least, of those grasses that ripen about the same 

 time, for my meadows. I do not like orchard-grass in a 

 meadow. I take exception to the Professor's recommenda- 

 tion in that respect ; it comes forward too soon for the other 

 grass. You want for your meadow grasses that mature at 

 the same time, and you want to cut them all before they go 

 out of blossom. I hope you will not forget that. They then 

 contain all the nutrition that they ever can or ever will con- 

 tain. And if you let them stand until they lose that nutrition, 

 you can never bake, fry, boil or stew the nutrition back into 

 them ; and if you have got to sprinkle meal over your hay, 

 and hire your cattle to eat it in that way, you are doing a 

 very silly piece of business. It is almost like skinning a flint 

 with a good jackknife, to feed a cow with old woody fibre, and 

 hire her to eat it by a sprinkling of meal. Cut your nice, 

 nutritious grass, cure it well, and the cow will be satisfied, 

 and you, too. 



Now I have said all I know, and more, too ; and I will only 

 say this in conclusion : that I have met a set of men here in 

 Barre who, I believe (I do not care how discouragingly my 

 friend, the Professor, has talked here to-day), are going to do 

 better than they have done. I think they are a class of 

 progressive farmers, and that they will take this matter right 

 up and go ahead and astonish the world with what they do ; 

 and when you have practised all we have preached to you 

 to-day, we will preach a little more. 



Dr. Wakefield. I suppose that some of these gentlemen 

 may ask me to state my experience in clearing bushes, because 

 some of them may know what I have done. I told you yes- 

 terday, gentlemen, that I went on to that farm about five 

 years ago. It carried then about twenty-five cows. It is 

 now able to carry forty cows easier than it carried twenty-five 



