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it. I cio not believe that salt, as a manurial agent, should 

 enter into our category of substances to be used on our farms. 

 I have reached that result after twenty years' experience. 



Question. I would like to ask Capt. jNIoore, if, in his 

 opinion, it can be made profitable, upon good grassland (such 

 land as he has described), for a man to buy any kind of com- 

 mercial fertilizer that is now offered in market, at present 

 prices, to grow grass. 



Capt. Moore. I do not want to judge of fertilizers in the 

 market. I have told you that 1 thought it was desirable 

 to use potash in some form. If you cannot get wood-ashes,. 

 use muriate of potash, and use bone, for the purpose of grow- 

 ing grass. I have answered the question as far as that. I 

 have told you that I believe that it is desirable, instead of 

 using a top-dressing of compost-manure, to use a certain quan- 

 tity of bone and ashes, or bone and potash. I know very 

 well (for I have done it a great many times) how valuable 

 ashes are for breaking down bone, as recommended by Dr. 

 Nichols ; but I am in this trouble, — that I cannot get the 

 ashes. Perhaps I can now, by buying the Canada ashes. I 

 think Dr. Nichols has told you of a better preparation and a 

 safer preparation for you to use than these fertilizers ; but 

 still, as I have said before, I have seen three or four hundred 

 pounds of superphosphate applied to an acre, and a good 

 crop of grass grown the next year from it. 



Question. I would like to ask if you think it profitable 

 to confine yourself to two varieties of seed ; and whether it 

 would not be fully as profitable to use more varieties, pro- 

 vided they ripen about the same time. 



Capt. Moore. I expected to be asked that question. As 

 I said to the audience, I use Timothy, or, as it is usually 

 called, herd's-grass, and red-top, because I think those varie- 

 ties mature nearly at the same time, and are better adapted, 

 not only for purposes of feeding, but to sell, if I cannot get 

 a fair price for my milk ; and I think they will produce more. 

 If you sow orchard-grass, you want to sow it alone. If you 

 sow Kentucky blue-grass, there is not enough of it, at least 

 not with me ; and I prefer those two grasses. If I am going 

 to grow clover, I will grow clover; but I do not want it 

 mixed with the other seed. There will be some in it, in 

 spite of all I can do ; but I do not propose to sow it. 



