oG BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Professor Cheesman. Why do you cut it before the corn 

 matures ? 



Mr. Sargent. Simply because I want the green feed for 

 my cows. I cut it when it is hirge enough to use for forage. 



Question. How for are the hills apart? 



Mr. Sargent. Three and a half feet by three. 



Question. If you commence cutting it as soon as you 

 Avant it, that is oftentimes before there are any ears formed, 

 is it not? 



Mr. Sargent. If there were no ears, I should try to get 

 along without cuttino; until the ears did form. 



Question. What I want to come at is the difference in 

 making milk between feeding it before the ears are formed 

 and after they have formed. What difference in the result 

 have you observed ? 



Mr. Sargent. I should say there is a great deal of differ- 

 ence, because my experience with fodder corn sown thickly, 

 with no ears upon it, was that it was the very poorest green 

 feed that I had used, while that with ears upon it was the 

 best soiling crop I had ever used. 



Mr. Dyer. Ex- Governor Hoard last year told us that 

 some farmers had made failures in years past by trying 

 to harrow in the peas, and he recommended especially that 

 we should plough them in. As my experience in that 

 direction years before had been a failure, I took his advice 

 and ploughed them in this year. He recommended plough- 

 ing them in four inches deep on old land, not sod land, and 

 sowing oats on top and harrowing them in. I followed his 

 advice, and had complete success where I have had failure 

 before. This year my peas grew the season through. There 

 was no mould, no blight and no withering, and that is what 

 he pledged us we should find if we followed his rule. I think 

 brother Sargent would find if he tried it that there is no 

 objection to doing it in the way that was recommended 

 by Ex-Governor Hoard. Although he may be successful, 

 another person who followed his advice might fail, because, 

 if the soil was too heavy or too stony, he would not be able 

 to get the peas in deep enough. Oats will grow all right 

 when they are harrowed in. 



The Chairman. We should be glad to hear from Pro- 



