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wanted it. I like to have plenty of substance, so that it will 

 not fall down at the first rain in the spring. 



Question. Do you sow any clover-seed with it ? 



Capt. Moore. I do not sow any clover-seed ; because, if I 

 wanted clover, I should sow it by itself. Clover does not 

 ripen at the same time with herd's-grass and red-top. I do 

 not think it is economy to mix clover with those seeds. I 

 use my hay in this way. Five or six years ago I made it 

 all into milk ; but the milk business of late has been very 

 unsatisfactory. I am going to make milk for the Boston 

 market whenever I can get a fair price for it ; when I can- 

 not, I am not going to make it. I once belonged, as many 

 of you have I suppose, to the Milk Producers' Association. 

 I saw that they could not accomplish any thing under the 

 methods which they followed ; and therefore I withdrew from 

 the association, and made up my mind, that, if I could not 

 sell ray hay through selling milk at a fair rate, then I would 

 sell it some other way. I could not get horses to keep to 

 use up the hay ; but I found that I could do this, — I found, 

 that, by raising hay of far better quality than the average, I 

 could sell it for more than the market price, and I could buy 

 manure ; and I can certainly net more by selling my hay, 

 and buying manure, than I can by making milk. Perhaps 

 all of you cannot do that. 



Question. What do you call a fair price for milk? 



Capt. Moore. Every farmer who sells his milk for the 

 Boston market ought to get five cents a quart at liis door 

 for it. That is only a fair price. You could not do as the 

 manufacturer of cotton cloth does : you could not buy your 

 cows, buy 3'Our hay and 3'our grain, calling your cows 

 your machines, and your hay your cotton or other material, 

 and work it up into milk, and live on it at five cents a 

 quart. The loss is too mucli on the cattle that represent the 

 machinery. 



Mr. Taft. If you buy every thing. 



Capt. -Moore. If you buy every thing, you cannot do it 

 at that price. 



Having sowed the seed, I have sometimes simply covered 

 it by rolling : again, I have thought that it was a better way 

 to run an ordinary brush-harrow over it, — it takes but a few 

 minutes for an acre, — using a harrow ten feet wide, with a 



