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about the seed would grow. I cannot cure my clover to suit me 

 if I cut it when it is more unripe than that. The kind I grow is 

 the medium size, that always yields two crops, the last for seed. 

 Timothy we cut when part of the seed will grow. That is, when 

 it is just as ripe as I would have wheat when cut. Timothy is 

 the universal grass where I live, in Onondaga county. Some 

 farmers cut grass in the blossom state, but the mass of people are 

 satisfied that the ripened grass makes the most nutritious hayj 

 and it is much less labor to save it in a sweet condition. 



Cutting Clover. 



Mr. Pell — I cut my clover when the heads are two-thirds ripe, 

 and take it in and salt it the same day. Timothy, I cut when 

 the blossoms have fallen oflf, and treat it in the same way as 

 clover. Wheat, I cut when in the early dough state, and it is 

 left to ripen on the ground. Some wheat green, weighed sixty- 

 five pounds per bushel, and contained eighteen pounds of gluten, 

 while wheat cut ripe from the same field, weighed only fifty-six 

 pounds per bushel, and eight pounds of gluten. The average of 

 gluten in this country is not over five and one-half or six pounds 

 per bushel. I have grown oats cut in the milk, that weighed 

 forty eight pounds per bushel, while the same crop cut in a 

 ripened state, weighed only thirty pounds. 



Dr. Waterbury — The great tendency of community has been 

 to defer cutting all grain too late. "When this error was fully 

 made known, some young farmers ran to the opposite extreme, 

 and cut grain and grass too green. I spoiled my first crop of 

 corn by cutting it up too soon. It would not ripen. It is well 

 known that clover seed is one of the most nutritious articles of 

 stock feed. 



Mr. Pell — The roots of corn are so fine that all the roots of a 

 large hill of corn could be carried in a man's hat. The roots 

 spread through all the soil to gather nutriment, hence it should 

 be finely pulverized. If a crop is cut green, it takes away but 

 very little matter from the soil that goes to produce seed and 

 exhaust the land. It is the ripening of seed that reduces the 

 productiveness of land. 



