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certain it is, the quality will be improved if the milk be cooled before 

 transportation. 



Kentucky Blue Grass. 



Mr. A. F. Cole, of Glensdale, Lewis county, IS". Y. — I would feel 

 under obligations to the Club for information in relation to sowing 

 Kentucky blue grass on interval land or on river flats that flow twice 

 each year, spring and fall. I clear a few acres of this land every sum- 

 mer. I pull the alders in the summer by hand, and with teams leav- 

 ing the soil loose and mellow. I usually seed with timothy, but that 

 kills out in a few years from the effects of the water. The informa- 

 tion I desire is whether I could succeed better with Kentucky blue 

 grass or with blue joint or red-top, and where could I find the seed. 

 One of my hired men told me last summer this was just the land for 

 the Kentucky blue grass, he having had experience in Ohio farming. 

 I have five acres of this interval land ready for the seed in the spring. 



Prof. H. E. Colton — From my knowledge of blue grass, and the 

 region in which it grows, I think that it would not grow on such a 

 meadow as that he describes. The Kentucky blue grass is a peculiar 

 plant, and grows on a peculiar soil. There is another blue grass very 

 much resembling it, but not the same. The western papers have 

 devoted much time and space to discussing these different grasses, 

 and a series of articles, with illustrations, in the Western Rural last 

 year carefully and clearly explained their differences. 



Dr. Isaac P. Trimble — I do not believe the Kentucky blue grass 

 will grow on that gentleman's meadow. Red-top is the grass for him. 



FlRE-FANGED MANURE. 



Mr. W- M. "Woodcock, Watertown, Tenn. — I have about forty loads 

 of manure in my stable, where I am feeding a drove of mules. It 

 has all accumulated since December 1. Have used considerable quan- 

 tities of sawdust and bedding, and have never removed any of it 

 from the stable, where it now lies to the depth of two feet, and very 

 moist from liquid manure. If I haul it to a heap it will be hot enough 

 to cook an egg in twenty-four hours. Is there danger of fire-fang, and 

 will the Club tell me the best means to get it rotted without losing 

 a great quantity of its virtues ? 



Dr. F. M. Hexamer — To mix his manure with muck is the surest 

 plan. I would advise twelve inches of manure, three inches of muck 

 and so on. The muck will absorb the ammonia. 



The Chairman — Dirt from side ditches or from the roads is good. 



