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that is long enough, in these days, to be bothering with any 

 crop. 



I have good success with clover. I have put in clover, and 

 the year following I have got two crops. Sometimes I sow 

 barley with clover, take off my barley green, and let the 

 clover have a fair chance, and get a good crop of rowen. 

 Once in a while I get two crops of clover, and possibly feed 

 it in the fall. The next fall I put in Hungarian grass, 

 which comes off about the first of August ; and then I put in 

 Timothy and red-top. I have put in flat turnips, and some- 

 times have raised, I think, a little too many for the benefit of 

 the soil. The last seed I bought of that kind was last Au- 

 gust, and I am sorry to say that a large portion of it was 

 wild turnip. There were a few flat turnip-seed mixed with 

 it, and a few rutabagas. I do not object to the rutabagas ; 

 but I do object to the wild turnips. 



Question. How much seed do you sow to the acre? 



Mr. Whittaker. Not less than twelve pounds, and 

 sometimes more. There is one thing that I am a little troubled 

 with. One gentleman said he was troubled by his oats 

 lodging. My trouble is, that my clover grows too large. 



Mr. Paul of Dighton. I wish to put this question to Mr. 

 Flint, Did you say that a crop of clover left two and a half 

 or three tons of nitrogen in the soil to the acre ? 



Mr. Flint. Yes, sir ; according to Professor Voelcker. 



Mr. Paul. There would be one thousand or twelve hun- 

 dred dollars' worth of value per acre in a crop of clover. 

 That is the way I understood him ; and I made the inquiry 

 to ascertain if I understood correctly. 



Mr. Flint. Yes, sir ; that was the result obtained by Pro- 

 fessor Voelcker, after a very careful analysis of three six-inch 

 layers of soil. He found from two to three tons of nitrogen 

 and its compounds, and it was to a large extent in a form 

 available for plant-food. 



Mr. Wethekell. I consider the subject that has been 

 discussed this afternoon an important one. I think what the 

 lecturer has said in regard to the early cutting of grass has 

 been assented to by every farmer. He might have said, that, 

 whereas it was formerly the custom to begin haying after the 

 4th of July, it is now no unusual thing for the farmers of 

 Massachusetts to have done haying at that time. I was told 



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