86 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Mr. Colling WOOD. For what crop? 



Mr. Ware. For potatoes. 



Mr. CoLLixGwooD. I can for potatoes. 



Mr. Ware. You plant corn. 



Mr. CoLLiNGWOOD. I can for corn. I appreciate the fact 

 that I have a very light, sandy soil, that works up easily, 

 and I do not need as fine a surface for my crops as a man 

 would in planting finer seed. I can take a Cutaway and 

 work up the soil for cabbage or corn or potatoes, and those 

 are about the only crops we have. I can set out strawberries 

 without any trouble at all. 



Dr. LiNDSEY. I want to make just a point. We have 

 grown crimson clover at the station, or tried to. We planted 

 it the first of Auo-ust or about that time, and it has o-rown 

 very nicely indeed and has gone through the winter very 

 well, but in the early spring we notice it winter-killed so 

 that when the season began we had hardly a sprig of clover 

 left. In Massachusetts, so far as our experience has gone, 

 it is not a success. I just wanted to make that statement 

 relative to our experience with crimson clover. If there is 

 any way to stop that early spring killing, it would be very 

 gratifying to us all to know how to do it. 



Mr. CoLLiNGWOOD. Let me ask you this. Do you think 

 that using manure or muck on the clover would help to carry 

 it through ? 



Dr. LiNDSEY. I must reply that I do not know. 



Mr. CoLLiNGWOOD. How about the cow-pea? Have you 

 tried that? 



Dr. LiNDSEY. Yes, sir ; but we have discarded it for the 

 soya bean, for this reason, we could not grow the seed of 

 the cow-pea, but we can grow the seed of the soya bean. 



Mr. COLLINGWOOD. What is the price of beans for seed? 



Dr. LiNDSEY. We have been selling it to the farmers 

 of Massachusetts in small quantities, and I think we have 

 charged about a dollar and a half a bushel ; the price has 

 escaped me at the present moment. The seed of the cow- 

 pea is about a dollar a bushel. 



Mr. CoLLiNGWOOD. I get my seed in Delaware, but I can 

 grow my own seed. 



Dr. LiNDSEY\ We have not succeeded in doing that. 



