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not let them go on the land, and trample it down. If yon do, 

 yon not only injure the grass itself, but you waste your food 

 to some extent. It is a great deal better to cut it, and feed 

 it to them. Only the day before j'esterday I saw cattle run- 

 ning all over some wet mowing-land. I am very sure that 

 the farmer who owns that land is not here in this audience. 

 Nobody here would do such a thing. 



I do not know that I have much more to say about the 

 grass-crop ; but I would like to remind you of what Swift 

 says, — the old thing that you have heard so many times. 

 He gave it as his opinion, that " whoever would make two 

 ears of corn or two blades of grass grow upon a spot of 

 ground where only one grew before would deserve better 

 of mankind, and do more essential service to his countr}^, 

 than the whole race of politicians put together." 



Question. When you have got your ground ready to 

 seed to grass, and have not got thirty-five loads of manure 

 to use, and find you have got to use something else, what 

 would you do ? 



Capt. MoOEE. I generally contrive to have it. 



Mr. Slade. You are talking to somebody, perhaps, who 

 hasn't it. I haven't it myself to spare. 



Mr. Taft. You live within twelve miles of Boston, and 

 you can get all the manure you want. Now, Mr. Slade lives 

 where he cannot get it. I live twelve miles from any city. 

 I have not the manure to put on. Now, what shall I put on ? 



Capt. MoOEE. I want you to understand, in the first place, 

 that I do not live within twelve miles of Boston : it is seven- 

 teen miles. In the next place, I do not see why you cannot 

 get manure just as easily as I can. As far as Mr. Slade is 

 concerned, he goes to Fall River, and gets manure cheaper 

 than I do. 



Mr. Taft. The Boston and Albany Railroad won't carry 

 it to Milford for what it is worth, and then I have to draw it 

 six miles farther. 



Capt. Moore. I will tell you what some of my neighbors 

 have done. One man, who is only separated from -me by the 

 road, has certainly raised some good crops of grass with four 

 or five hundred pounds of some phosphate ; but he has let- 

 his land run back. He is one of the men, who, having got a 

 good crop, expect that it is going to last them forever. But if 



