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Mr. James Rankin (of Easton). Allowing that crimson 

 clover would stand our climate, in what is it superior to our 

 common red clover? 



Mr. CoLLiNGWooD. It is hardly a fair comparison, from 

 the fact that the crimson clover makes its growth in such a 

 short time. I can grow it on my soil when otherwise the 

 soil would be barren. It does not interfere with any other 

 crop. With the red clover, you have to make it a present 

 of a year's use of the laud before you can utilize it. 



Dr. LiNDSEY. We have no trouble in growing the bean 

 at the station. 



Mr. CoLLiNGwooD. You believe in the possibility of 

 farming with green crops and chemicals ? 



Dr. LiNDSEY. Certainly. With your conditions, I think 

 •it is perfectly possible. 



Mr. Colli NGwooD. If I were to come back to Massachu- 

 setts, I should try to use my present arrangement. 



Mr. H. M. Thompson (of Easton). Do you think you 

 could raise it without any manure or fertilizer ? 



Mr. COLLINGWOOD. Ycs ; some of this was grown with- 

 out anything at all. 



Mr. W. F. Taber (of Poughkeepsie). Having grown all 

 these difi'erent kinds of green crops for sale and for plough- 

 ing under, I think perhaps I might say a word. I grow 

 crimson clover successfully, and have a line crop now. For 

 one or two seasons when I first commenced growing it, it 

 would not live through the spring. I believe that crimson 

 clover is worth more than it costs. 



The question has been asked whether it is better to raise 

 red clover in the place of crimson clover. I wall answer in 

 the affirmative, if there is any danger of the crimson clover 

 being killed. I sow both, as the occasion requires. If we 

 can sow the red clover (I use the mammoth) at about the 

 time we would sow the crimson clover, the earlier in July 

 the better, we can get a fine growth of the red clover in the 

 fall to cover the ground throuo;h the winter. It starts in to 

 grow in the spring, and there is no danger of its being 

 winter-killed. I sometimes plough it under the first spring. 

 We get a greater growth of top than we get from the crimson 

 clover. There is not stored up in the roots quite as great an 



