CULTIVATED MOWING-LANDS. 125 



Mr. . I have had a little experience, which I will 



relate (perhaps experience is as good as any thing) : Year 

 before last I planted, for the first time, orchard-grass with 

 clover. We had a most remarkable drought in Kingston, and 

 the herd's-grass was entirely killed, and a great portion of the 

 clover ; but the orchard-grass stood the drought when other 

 things did not. I found that it ripened exactly with the 

 clover. I would like to hear the experience of others, because 

 it takes more than one swallow to make a summer. I was very 

 much pleased and struck with the appearance of the orchard- 

 grass and clover both rijDeniug together. I know there is a 

 trouble with clover, — that other grass is killed out ; but it 

 appears that we have got something that will work with 

 clover in the orchard-grass, and something that is capable of 

 standing a severe drought. 



Question. I would like to ask Capt. Moore how un- 

 leached ashes compare in value with leached. 



Capt. Moore. I cannot tell you. I know leached ashes 

 is a good thing to have ; but about the only difference be- 

 tween leached and unleached ashes, as I understand it, is, 

 that one has had the potash largely extracted, and the other 

 has not. In buying leached ashes, it takes about a bushel 

 and a half of dry ashes to make one bushel of leached. If 

 you get it from soap-makers, lime and some other things have 

 been added. 



Question. I should like to ask, if, under the system of 

 top-dressing which you recommend, the land will hold out 

 longer than five years ; that is, bear paying crops. 



Capt. Moore. Perhaps I ought to have touched upon 

 that point. I think when you have cut your plants five 

 years, getting two crops a year, it is better for you to turn 

 that sod over, and start again with new plants. 



Question, Will the gentleman tell us how large his last 

 crop is, in proportion to the others, — how much his tenth 

 crop is reduced ? 



Capt. Moore. If I had a piece of land from which I did 

 not get but three tons to the acre, I should want to begin to 

 plough. Three tons are not going to satisfy me. If you 

 got three tons the fifth year, that would represent five tons 

 the first year. 



Question. It seems that the captain has been telling us 



