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weather, to take advantage of all the heat and sun possible 
in curing, combined with tedding or pitching over in the 
swath, will usually save itin fair condition. The second 
crop should be cut in wet weather, rather than in dry, that 
it may be partially cured when the drying weather comes. 
Occasionally some has been lost, in a continued wet fall, but 
in 1902it wassaved in fair condition, after curing in winrow 
and cock for eleven days. Incuring timothy, no difficulty 
need be experienced. 
The work done with grass and clover on the experiment 
farm is by no means complete. In Table CIII were given the 
results of twelve plots, six of which are mixtures of different 
kinds of grasses and clovers for meadow. In 1902, twenty- 
two different plots were sown, of grasses, clovers and mix- 
tures, including all of the varieties previously tested, and blue 
grass. These are so arranged that one-half of each plot can 
be cut for hay and the other half pastured by sheep. This 
will test the grasses and mixtures in two distinct ways, 
which will be a check on each other, and are sure to give use- 
ful results. Theamount of seed tosow of cloverand timothy, 
and the proportions of timothy and red clover seed best 
adapted for general seeding have been tested in a series of 22 
plots sown in 1902. Results from these tests will be avail- 
able next year. 
Cornfodder.—It is no longer considered good agricultural 
practice, anywhere in thecorn belt to grow corn with the in- 
tention of feeding the stalks tocattle aftera crop of ears has 
beenremoved. Theears absorb most of the feeding value of the 
corn, and the remaining stalks are dry, woody and tasteless. 
But cornstalks were never more widely used than today, as 
a feed for stock. They are grown for this purpose alone, and 
sown thick, in rows, which prevents the formation of ears 
and allows the food material to remain distributed through 
the stalk. Here in northern Minnesota the reasons for grow- 
ing corn for seed and fodder separately apply with still 
greater force than elsewhere. The kinds that will ripen seed 
are necessarily small in size, and the fodder that would be 
obtained from thesestalks would hardly amount toaton per 
acre of poor feed. But it requires much less time to mature 
corn for fodder alone and in consequence the same varieties 
