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went to work for himself, and he is now ready to buy and 

 pay for a farm near Boston. I had that from him when I 

 travelled with him going to the Bay State fair in Worcester 

 only a few months ago. That is what a man of the right 

 stuff can do at Amherst, but they are not all like him. 



Mr. F. E. Clark (of Wilbraham). You remember a 

 year ago last June the Board of Agriculture was invited to 

 visit Mr Hale's strawberry and peach plantation in Glaston- 

 bury, Conn. While there he told us of his experiments 

 with clover. If I recollect, he said something like this: 

 " If Mr. Bowker were not here, I would tell you that for 

 ten or twelve cents I can produce as much nitrogen and 

 save it for my farm as I can buy from Mr. Bowker for the 

 same number of dollars." I was so much enthused that I 

 came home and told members of our grange about it ; and I 

 sowed crimson clover, and a good many of my neighbors 

 did, and last fall it came up and looked nice, but in the 

 spring it had almost all disappeared. We found a few 

 sprigs of it, and took them into the house and our wives 

 put them in their flower pots. I would like to ask Mr. 

 Hale if he still continues to have success. If so, is it not 

 the difference in the temperature that makes it winter-kill 

 with us ? 



Mr. Hale. If the gentleman has read as he should, he 

 will find that scarlet clover was killed throughout the whole 

 United States last winter, — in Delaware and Virginia, 

 where it was first introduced and was grown so successfully, 

 and in Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York, — wher- 

 ever it was tried ; and still I keep right on with it. I lost 

 more last winter than ever before. There is no doubt that 

 it is a little bit tender, but it is becoming acclimated and is 

 growing more hardy. Instead of carrying those plants to 

 your best girl, you should have saved the seed. Some use 

 red clover. It takes a longer season. The red clover is 

 not ready to bloom until into June, while the scarlet is 

 ready in May. Grow the common clover or the cow-pea or 

 the soja bean ; do not give up the trap. 



Professor Brooks. What the experiment stations pub- 

 lish is not read enough. Crimson clover has not been sue- 



