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for plowing for the corn crop. Witli the treatment I have 

 outlined for the grass field, 1 believe a good maximum crop of 

 hay can be grown for a good many years without plowing up 

 and reseeding, certainly for ten or more years, as we have a 

 iield at home which proves that this can be done. 



These grass fields ought, and do, on our farm, to produce at 

 least three tons of hay the first crop, and nearly a ton of rowen 

 the second crop, if the first crop is cut early enough to give a 

 chance for a good second crop. With this system, a 50-acre 

 farm handled as I have outlined would produce from 400 to 

 450 tons of prime ensilage and 95 to 100 tons of hay each 

 season, and grow better each succeeding year. Of course 

 grain must be bought; but when one considers the manurial 

 value of this purchased feed, as well as the feeding value, and 

 makes the very best use of it by saving all the manure and 

 applying it to the land, I believe the dairy herd, if it is well 

 selected and bred for the purpose for which it is kept, can be 

 made to pay. 



In conclusion, allow me to say to those of you who are 

 dairymen that I believe there has never been a time in our 

 history when there has been so much need as at j)resent for us 

 to own and feed only profitable dairy cows. It becomes us to 

 study to be true dairymen, breeding and raising our own cows, 

 and once more covering our hill pastures with a class of cattle 

 that will be a credit to us as breeders, and a heritage to our 

 children worthy of their best thought and endeavor as they 

 go forward in the path we have chosen. 



QuKSTiox. I want to know a little about the lime question. 

 Do you use lime for its fertilizing qualities, or its corrective 

 qualities ? Professor Clinton held that it was simply correct- 

 ive, and that a great deal more importance was placed on lime 

 than it deserved. You have put a great deal of emphasis on 

 treating land with lime, and that is why I want you to explain 

 more fully about it. 



Mr. Daniels. It certainly has corrective qualities, — 

 takes the acid out of the soil, and liberates plant food which is 

 otherwise unavailable. Tf I had a stomach ache, I should 

 take something to correct it ; I have found Jamaica ginger 



