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C. H. Bragdon : In a very wet season would you not have to 

 remove that? 



Mr. Thayer: No sir. That is not necessary. 



C. H. Bragdon: What if you have a regular Minnesota rain? 



Mr. Thayer: We have them in Wisconsin. 



Dr. Prisselle: What kind do you use? 



Mr. Thayer: I use mammoth and medium in order to pro- 

 long the season of mulching. You take a medium clover, and 

 for a large plantation it requires a large force of men to use it 

 before it matures too much. By using a mammoth clover I can 

 prolong the season. 



C. H. Gordon: How many times do you cut the clover? 



Mr. Thayer: Only once; the second crop you can cut for 

 hay. 



R. P. Lupton: How thick do you put it around your plants? 



Mr. Thayer: About three or four inches. Along in the fall 

 of the year about the time you are ready for covering it will be 

 a compact mass and about rotten. 



Judge Moyer: How do you put it on? 



Mr. Thayer: My grounds are laid out in alleys. My rows 

 across the entire field are eighty rods long. I dump the 

 clover on each side of the alleys; then I have my stone boats, 

 as we used to call them, and load it on those and go through 

 the row until I reach the alleys, and in this way go clear 

 through all the rows. 



Mr. Cutler: Have you ever tried it on strawberries. ? 



Mr. Thayer: No sir, I have never tried it on strawberries. 

 It comes immediately after strawberries are marketed. I ro- 

 tate it every two or three years. 



R. P. Lupton: Do you use any other fertilizer excepting 

 clover? 



Mr. Thayer: Not much I gather up some during the win- 

 ter when my teams are not doing much else. 



C. H. Bragdon: Do the mice ever get under it? 



Mr. Thayer: They never have to my knowledge. 



Mr. Cutler: ^Has anyone ever noticed mice working in clover? 



Mr. Thayer: I cannot say that I have. I do not think they 

 do, because it decays very rapidly. 



Joshua Allyn: I have seen mice work in stacks of clover. 



