No. 7. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 321 



— I am auswering this iu a general way — we don't sow seed enough; 

 iliat is the trouble. 



I have had a lot of experience along that line; I have seen Mr. 

 Haldeman's grass field, and he sowed thirty pounds of mixed seed; 

 that I gave you this morning, and I tell you now that that land was 

 well-nigh covered with seed, and the grass is so thicii on the ground 

 you can't see through it, and that man made four tons of hay this 

 summer from an acre. 



Another thing about this matter is, that we do not test our seeds; 

 every seed that the farmer sows ought to be tested; I don't care 

 whether it is corn or oats or rye or what it is, it ought to be tested. 



I have this question: "Docs not the time that wheat is sown in 

 the fall have much to do with the catch of timothy?" 



I will say in answer to that that the trouble is that the wheat 

 takes possession o^f the ground and the timothy has no other place 

 to grow; and another trouble is it is often covered too thick and 

 can't come up. 



MR. HUTCHISON: How does it come that you can raise three 

 tons of hay to the acre under that condition? 



PEOF. MENGES: We very seldom do it. 



MR. HALLOW ELL: I want to say that we have never lost a 

 crop of timothy in seeding previous to the first of October, making 

 hay raising one of our staples. 



PROF. MENGES: ^Yhat county? 



MR. HALLO WELL: Bucks county. 



PROF. MENGES: I come from the eastern part of the State, 

 from the York Valley, and I must say that we have had only about 

 one-third and one-half crops year after year, and whenever the 

 method that I advocated here this morning has been adopted, it 

 has been successful, invariably. I know of a man who has intro- 

 duced this method of grass raising on a farm, that I regard as one 

 of the poorest, on red shale land. He sowed forty acres to it 

 and last summer when we didn't have very much grass to begin 

 with, tliat man on that thin soil had a stand of a ton and a half 

 and two tons to the acre. The soil is poor; it is not rich. 



MR. HERR: I live within eighteen miles of this place (Mr. 

 Emig's) and I will state that I can't get little enough seed on; the 

 timothy seed is not covered at all. You can go through that field 

 and see any amount of timothy growing there. 



21—7—1904 



