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I do not believe there is any particular difficulty in growing alfalfa 

 in Pennsylvania. Does the sweet clover grow here by the side of 

 the road? 



A Member: Yes. 



GOV. HOARD: You need give yourself no uneasiness. Wherever 

 sweet clover grows alfalfa grows almost indigenously if a man 

 knows how to handle it. 



A Member: Where do you buy your seed? 



GOV. HOARD: I buy my seed usually of seedmen, but I am pretty 

 particular about it. 



A Member: Which ones? 



GOV. HOARD: Well, that is hardly fair to say, but I usually have 

 sent into Montana and bought my seed. 



With alfalfa as with all kinds of hay, drying hay is not curing it. 

 I want to repeat it, drying hay is not curing it. There is a wonder- 

 ful difference in the feed value of clover and alfalfa, whether vou 

 cure in the dock or cure in the winrow and the sun. If you put it 

 into the cock just as soon as the rake will gather it, just as soon as 

 it will work on the rake, rake it up into the winrows, and from that 

 up into the covered cocks, well capped. I use the hay cap. You 

 do not know what is going to happen. The first crop is in the first of 

 June, and I put on the hay cap. I have 1,500 of those little caps, 

 they cost $120 a thousand, 12 cents apiece. (Explaining the use of 

 the cap by illustration.) 



A Member: Did you spread this hay after you put the caps on? 



GOV. HOARD: About an hour or two. My men came along and 

 lift it open for an hour or two, just throw it open so the air can get 

 to it, and oxygenate it, you know, and that will just finish the job. 

 I want to haul it to the barn when it is just so the leaves won't fall. 



A Member: How much do you spread each shock? 



GOV. HOARD: Just a little, throw it out so as to give it a little 

 air. 



A Member: Do you like to haul in the heat of the day? 



GOV. HOARD: I do not pay any attention to it. I haul it just 

 as fast as I can. I am anxious to haul it before the leaves will 

 drop. 



A Member: What is your idea about inoculating the soil with 

 other soil? 



GOV. HOARD: I have tried it. I have drawn soil from the side 

 of the road where sweet clover was growing, and drawn soil from 

 one old field I had, on to a new field. 



A Member: Do you think it helped it? 



GOV. HOARD: Helped it. A year ago last fall I inoculated 22 

 acres with culture from the Department at Washington. 



A Member: How much to the acre of the old soil? 



GOV. HOARD: About a thousand pounds. 



