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zontally into the mow, and then draw it out after twelve to twenty- 

 four hours. The barbs pull out a sample of the hay from the centre 

 of the mow. I thus julge of the condition of it as to heat, &c. If 

 the color is of a pale yellow, I let it go; but beyond that, I move the 

 mow to another place. 



Three men will re-stack thirty loads in a day. In winter I found 

 a strong fragrance coming from the clover. It was green, and the 

 flowers had kept their color, nearly, instead of turning brown. I 

 have followed this practice fifteen years. In England we had a yel- 

 low trefoil, which, when in mow, a man cut with his hay knife; — 

 he found his pantaloons covered with an oil from it. 



Judge Van Wyck. — We cut clover before we do timothy, gener- 

 ally. I have often noticed the gummy, sticking matter on clover. 

 It forms a sort of paste, and seems to be composed of the juices of 

 the hay and some of the salt used in the mow. In Germany, they 

 cut their grasses while green, and put them into pits in the ground, 

 putting one pound of salt to every hundred pounds of hay. It keeps 

 in the best manner; — cattle are greedy after it, and less of it serves. 



Charles Henry Hall. — We have two facts brought out to-day, 

 that are w'orth more than all the declamation: One, as to clover 

 kept perfectly in its green state; the other, a crop of two hundred 

 bushels of potatoes followed by five hundred bushels of turnips on 

 the same acre, in the same season. Cattle love turnips far better 

 than they do potatoes, and so do pigs; even ducks, geese and fowls 

 love them, chopped small. 



Mr. Elliot. — It gives an unpleasant taste to milk. 



Chairman. — As to hay, I make it in small cocks. If it should 

 rain, I double them, and sometimes double them again. I made tar- 

 paulins, as I call them, with a cheap paint, — a l.ole in the middle, — 

 covered the cocks with them. The hay under them remained per- 

 fectly green, and kept all its juices. 



Mr. Wakeman. — While fruit is coming into our markets, it would 

 be well that a committee should examine, as often as possible, to 

 collect the best specimens, and when deemed proper, to have a wax 

 copy of such as cannot be kept, for our fruit convention. I move 

 such a committee. 



Adopted unanimously. 



