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it, and readily, mules and cattle seeming to do almost as 

 veil upon it as upon the timothy alone. 



"I know that some differ from me in considering the 

 white blossom as troublesome as any other plant, and throw 

 it away. I have some hands to run along the windrow and 

 pick out the white blossoms, and make hay of the white 

 blossoms alone. It pays very well for the labor of sepa- 

 rating it. I will not throw the white blossom away, for it 

 is valuable. I stack it in my pastures and let the cattle go 

 to it at will during the winter. I also stack my straw, and 

 that helps the cattle. 



"Now, what is the proper time to cut timothy? Some 

 -would say as soon as it blooms, others would say after it has 

 bloomed and the bloom has fallen. If I could cut it all on 

 the day I thought it would make the best hay, I would cat 

 it just about the time it has lost the largest portion of its 

 bloom. If you cut it too green — like green fodder — the 

 stalk will shrivel and, after being cured, the stalk will 

 break short, but if allowed to get a little riper the stalk will 

 bend. 



" How much sun should it have? This is a question that 

 can only be determined by experience. The proper time to 

 put it up is when it has had as little sun as possible, so you 

 are assured it will not mould. If there is too much moist- 

 ure in it, it will mould, and thereby injure the hay. If the 

 weather is settled, it will cure better in cocks, but all these 

 things must be governed by circumstances." 



It is highly probably that the reason Gen. Harding's 

 meadows fail in six or seven years, is the fact, he admits, of 

 pasturing them. It is a well ascertained fact that timothy 

 will not bear pasturing, and attention to this and leaving 

 the first joint uncut will most probably make our meadows 

 again live twenty or thirty years. 



At the meeting of the Stock Breeders' Association ia 

 February, 1878, Gen. W. H. Jackson said, that the best 

 forerunner of timothy is Hungarian grass. If this is sown 



