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ever ; all I have got appertaining to science I have learned from 

 experience ; and that experience I have got from sheer neces- 

 sity and nothing else. But I believe in science ; I believe in 

 God ; and I believe that everything which emanates from him 

 is Science, and that it is true. Science never lies. Anything 

 that we see in science that is apparently erroneous is owing to 

 our own erring minds ; it is not science that errs. We cannot 

 rely upon what is stated as being always scientific. 



This grass to which I have referred was cut, a part of it, on 

 the fifth of July ; some of it stood until the fourteenth, from 

 necessity, for want of help ; and also, because, being a little 

 timid in all these things, and neighbors and friends saying I 

 should lose if I cut that grass, I thought I would test the mat- 

 ter ; and I found that the grass that was cut on the fifth was 

 much the best hay, and was worth the most money, I have no 

 doubt ; and that good doctor came to the conclusion, after 

 looking at my hay, and seeing the grass and testing it, that the 

 hay which was put in later would have been worth more than 

 the cost of cutting, in addition, if it had been cut as early as 

 the rest. 



The reason I put it as late as the twelfth is, because I 

 thought it might please some of the gentlemen here better than 

 to put it earlier. I believe in cutting even earlier than that. 

 I believe, as the professor says, that the time to cut grass is 

 when it has elaborated all the different juices necessary to 

 form the seed ; not to wait until they have gone into the seed, 

 because the moment the seed begins to form, that moment the 

 lower part of the grass and the leaves begin to lose their value ; 

 begin to turn woody. My idea about cutting herdsgrass is 

 that it should be cut the moment that the blossom makes its 

 appearance. Clover I would cut as early as the second set of 

 heads form. There are three sets of heads in red clover, and I 

 would cut it at that time. If clover is cut in that way, there is 

 no trouble in having it come out bright and nice. I sold a 

 scaffold of hay this spring to the hotel keeper there, which was 

 put in last year in pretty good season and not much dried. It 

 weighed well, a great deal more than he expected it would, and 

 he said it was splendid hay. At any rate, there was no must 

 in that hay ; his horses do well on it, and like it. I think the 



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