320 ANNUAL REPORT OF THE Off. Doc. 



ROUND TABLE, 

 (Conducted by Prof. Mengks.) ^ 



MR. HOWDEN: How cau we plough under grass so tliick that a 

 mower will not cut it? 



PROF. MENGES: I expect that the gentleman I referred to, 

 Mr. I. B. Smith, might answer that better than I can. That is the 

 second crop of grass that he raised on the land that I am talking 

 about, and the turf had not been hardened so much, and the roots 

 were not so long and strong that it could not be easily plowed down. 

 If that turf had been six or seven years old, I think it would have 

 been quite a job, but Mr. Smith succeeded very well in plowing it 

 down. 



MR. STOUT: I would like to inquire if the same inoculation 

 you spoke about in your paper that will start alfalfa to grow in a 

 field — do you plow that under with the same bacteria? 



PROP\ MENGES: Yes. 



A Member: Would you sow alfalfa in the spring? 



PROF. MENGES: Yes, I would be willing to sow alfalfa in the 

 spring, in the month of May. 



A Member: On low ground, where common clover does not 

 thrive, what would you use in the way of seed in starting a perma- 

 nent meadow? 



PROF. MENGES: I did not read that part of my paper; I would 

 advise either to sow the white clover — use the white clover and the 

 alsike clover. I would not use the red clover in a meadow. And, 

 another thing, I would uuderdrain a meadow of that sort. 



QUESTION: "Have you any knowledge of the so-called 'Irish timo- 

 thy,' and would you advise it as a permanent pasture?" 



PROF. MENGES: I do not know it by that name; if there is any 

 one here that can tell me any other name for it, I might be able 

 to tell you something about it. 



I have a question here: "What is the price of alfalfa meal and 

 where can it be obtained?" I don't know; that question, I think, is 

 for Mr. Campbell. 



QUESTION: "How many seeds per foot sqiiare would the one-half 

 bushel of timothy seed give, and would it be policy to have one- 

 fourth of this number of plants?" 



PROF. MENGES: I don't know how many seeds that would be; 

 I have that in my paper, but I think I skipped it, I don't re- 

 member; but I tell you the trouble with the farmer is 



