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many crops after corn. I would not sacrifice any of the 

 original crop for the sake of a second crop. 



Mr. . I have raised a full crop of barley and 



brought it to milk by the middle of September. 



Professor Kobektson. We have had no weather to do 

 that in Canada. 



Secretary Sessions. That was a remarkable season. 



Mr. BoAVKER. I wish the professor would tell us some- 

 thing about how to grow sunflowers. How do you cultivate 

 them ? I ask that question because the sunflower seed might 

 be used in this locality for other purpose than feeding cattle. 



Professor Robertson. W^e grow sunflowers to use in 

 our feed rations. We sow five pounds of seed to the acre, 

 because we cannot put on less without too much labor. We 

 grow them like corn, in rows three feet apart, and leaving 

 plants al)out eighteen inches apart in the rows. We cut 

 them when they are ripe. We have had seven tons of heads 

 from an acre. 



Mr. BowKER. What do you do with the stems? 



Professor Robertson. We burn them. We thought 

 they would be of some value for fuel, but they are not worth 

 much, although they are burned in some places for that 

 purpose. 



Question. Has any one in this audience had any expe- 

 rience with scarlet clover in this latitude ? 



Mr. Stetson (of Lakeville). I was requested last spring 

 to make an experiment, but the seed did not reach me from 

 Washington until quite late in the season. I think I sowed it 

 about the middle of May, and it came up very nicely, but dry 

 weather came on and checked the growth. We had an ex- 

 tremely dry summer afterwards, and it never recovered. My 

 impression is, from what I have learned since, that scarlet 

 clover should be sown in Auoust. I have had very ffood sue- 

 cess with other clovers, always sowing them in the spring, the 

 earlier the better. If I were goino; to sow common clover, I 

 should sow it in March. 



Professor Brooks. We tried scarlet clover at the Ex- 

 periment Station in Amherst, sowing in the spring one 

 year, and got a good crop. That was on a very small scale. 

 Then we tried it two years sowing in August. It made a 



