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patent medicine. When the shoe business was taken away, 

 we went into different kinds of business to keep things going. 

 He conceived the idea of making a patent medicine. He had 

 an idea he could sell it to good advantage. He took buds 

 and leaves of walnut trees, I chopped them, and we put them 

 into the cider press and squeezed out the juice (I am going 

 to give away a secret, — it never was patented). He took 

 one part of walnut juice, one part of well water, one part of 

 molasses and one part of old Medford rum. Then he offered 

 that for sale. It would cure anything, from a sore foot to 

 consumption. We called it " walnut extract." What pro- 

 portion of it was walnut extract? I look at it this way. I 

 must have the stable manure to start a fermentation in the 

 muck. If left to itself, it will not ferment as quickly as I 

 want to have it. I use it on the principle that Uncle Daniel 

 used his walnut extract. The only use I have for stable 

 manure is to start fermentation inside the pile of muck. If a 

 man should come to me and say, "I have a car-load of stable 

 manure that you can have," I would take it. 



Mr. Ware. You used it in fertilizing your crop. 



Mr. CoLLiNGWoou. I would rather have to-day a growth 

 of crimson clover on my field than twenty loads of the finest 

 stable manure that ever came out of a stable. It does not 

 cost me more than a dollar and a quarter which I pay for the 

 seed, and possibly three hours' time to work it into the soil. 

 Wouldn't it be foolish to go and buy stable manure ? 



Mr. Sargent. We cannot grow crimson clover in all 

 parts of Massachusetts. 



Mr. Colling WOOD. I am not so sure of it. I tried three 

 years before I could get it started. 



Mr. Stetson. What time do you sow it? 



Mr. CoLLiNGwooD. Part was sowed the 27th of July ; 

 the first was sowed the 17th of July. That was on a piece 

 of Evergreen corn which was then about ready for the last 

 cultivation. 



Mr. Elbrtdge Cushman (of Lakeville). Would you use 

 rye and crimson clover both on your farm ? I have thirty 

 acres that I have sowed with winter rye. Would there be 

 any advantage in my introducing crimson clover on the light, 



