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it. It depends a great deal on the number of tons per 

 acre. 



E. T. Sabin (of Amherst). There are a good many 

 farmers here who have not a silo. I have a silo. I do not 

 put my millet into the silo. I have raised millet for a 

 number of years, and have never had a poor crop yet. I 

 had one piece that was so heavy that when I came to mow 

 it I said, " I guess I will see what I have," and I got off the 

 machine and stood beside the millet, and it came up to my 

 ears. If I had fertilized it a little more, I could have had 

 it larger. You can sell millet for hay as well as you can 

 sell herds-grass. 



Secretary Sessions. One fact about red-top, which the 

 speaker recommended : on a large tract of salt marsh in 

 the town of Marshfield the only hay they can raise for the 

 first few years is red-top, and that grows luxuriantly. This 

 shows the tenacity of the red-top. 



D. F. Shumway (of Belchertown) . You would advocate 

 having; a general farmer have a silo. What can we do with 

 our hay crop? We cannot sell that to the bicyclists. 



Professor Phelps. Sell it to your neighbors. Keep 

 more stock. 



Mr. Shumway. Then we shall be obliged to build barns 

 to put our hay in. 



Professor Phelps. You can build barns to store hay 

 very cheaply. 



Mr. Shumway. I have sold quantities of hay in Spring- 

 field and Holyoke, but I have sold but one load this fall. 

 The market is full of hay. If we put up silos, we will 

 have to build barns every year. 



Professor Phelps. These conditions are not going to 

 exist right along. The chances are that we will go to the 

 other extreme in the production of hay within five years. 



Mr. Shumway. Horses are slowly going out of use, and 

 the things we have to feed hay to are growing less. 



Professor Phelps. I told you in my paper that the 

 people in the cities are using as much hay as ever, notwith- 

 standing the use of the trolley cars and the bicycles. 



Mr. Edmund Hersey (of Hingham). Before this meet- 

 ing adjourns I want to express my personal obligation to 



