138 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Mr. Bliss. I couldn't give you the exact amount. We 

 put on a light dressing of barn manure, also some muriate 

 of potash and a phospiiate ; I think that was all the commer- 

 cial fertilizer we used. 



Mr. Sessions. You had as much as 3 tons to the acre 

 there, or more? 



Mr. Bliss. Yes, I think so. The field was about 7 

 acres, and we got 18 or 19 tons of good, dry hay, and 7 or 

 8 tons of rowen. 



Mr. Heath (of Monson) . Would the professor advise us 

 to clover-seed a field where the clover will come in the sec- 

 ond year itself, plenty of it ? 



Professor Hurd. I think in seeding down I would use 

 whatever seed I wanted. I would use clover seed in the 

 seeding-down mixture, and not depend u})on the clover com- 

 ing in of itself. 



Mr. Heath. The first 3'ear, if you grow timothy and red- 

 top, you will get a good crop, and the second year it will l)e 

 a heavy crop of clover on my field. 



Professor Hurd. With us it is just the other way. We 

 get the clover the first crop ; and thnothy and Kentucky 

 ))lue grass, and those things, the second crop ; and our alsike 

 clover Avill last three or four years ; the red clover will last two 

 years. 



Question. How much seed to the acre? 



Professor Hurd. Just about half a bushel; use, say, 11 

 pounds of timothy, 8 pounds of red clover, G pounds of 

 alsike clover and about 4 pounds of redtop and Kentucky 

 blue grass, the whole making about half a bushel of grass 

 seed to the acre. 



Mr. Sessions. And the professor, I believe, recommends 

 seeding down with oats ; we can't do that successfully here, 

 I think. Our best success seems to be, like Mr. Bliss's, in 

 seedino- after mowins: in Ausfust. 



Professor Hurd. Yes ; a good many of your men suc- 

 ceed well in seeding in this way, too. 



iVIr. Sessions. Our soil after an oat crop seems to be so 

 loose that the removal of the oat crop and letting the sun in 



