244 PRACTICAL QUESTIONS. 



6. Have you cultivated or raised orchard, fowl 

 meadow, or blue joint grasses, and with what result 

 as compared with the yield and value of other grasses ? 



7. At what stage of growth do you prefer to cut 

 grass to make into English and into swale hay, and 

 what is the reason for your preference ? 



8. What is the best mode of making hay from Timo- 

 thy, from redtop, and from wet meadow grass, and at 

 what state of dryness do you consider it made, or fit to 

 get into the barn? [This question embraces, to some 

 extent, the time taken to make it under ordinary cir- 

 cumstances of good weather, &c. This, of course, 

 varies greatly, but some farmers would dry grass cut 

 in the blossom two good hay-days, while others would 

 prefer to cure it less, and get it in on the day it was 

 cut.] 



9. Will you state in detail how you make or cure 

 clover; and how, when so cured, it compares in value 

 with other kinds of hay to feed out to farm stock ? 



10. Have you used hay caps ; and if so, with what 

 result, in point of economy ? How were they made, 

 and at what cost? 



11. Have you used a mowing machine ; and if so, 

 what patent, with what power, and with what advan- 

 tage? 



12. At what height from the ground do you prefer to 

 have your grass cut, and why ? 



13. Have you used a horse-rake ; and if so, what 

 patent, and with what advantage ? 



14. Do you feed off the after growth of your mowing 

 lands in the fall ? Do you think it an injury or a benefit 

 to the field to feed it off? 



15. Do you top-dress your mowing or pasture lands ; 

 and if so, what manure do you prefer to use, at what 

 time, and in what quantities do you apply it ? 



