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McLean said his experience was to cut in the dew or 

 milk of the grass, the best time. 



C. C. BuELL thought this a very important question, 

 and should be thoroughly discussed, so as to get more 

 light upon it. 



Seward thought the statement of McLean, that hay 

 should not be cut until the seed had fallen, should not go 

 out to the public ; the fact was, timothy had two blooms — 

 first a white, second, a blue bloom — and should be cut in 

 the first bloom, at least for him. Scofield was reminded of 

 an apple : it was good only once, to-day and not to-mor- 

 row. If a farmer has lOO acres to cut, he cannot cut it all 

 in a day or two. When must he cut, green or ripe ? 



Seward thought this a common sense question. It 

 could not all be cut in one day, therefore some would be a 

 little too green and some a little too ripe, but the average 

 just right. 



A member thought the farmer who had lOO acres of 

 hay, had better have 50 acres of it in corn. 



C. H. Larkin wanted to know about the two blossoms 

 on timothy ; did not understand it ; thought all plants were 

 allowed only one blossom each year, 



Seward : It may not be true that timothy has two 

 blossoms. The first might change color ; perhaps it did. 



A member had lived on the Western Reserve ; used 

 small teams, plowed shallow, and raised poor crops. New 

 settlers came in, with large teams, plowed deep, and sowed 

 clover, and were soon raising large crops. Believed clover 

 the cheapest fertilizer the farmer had. If cut early it would 



