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get good results from the German or golden millet. It makes 

 fine fodder. There is a great deal of nutrition in the seeds and 

 some of our farmers are threshing it out, and grinding the seed, 

 but I wouldn't want to say whether that was profitable or not, 

 I should rather cut it a little earlier and let the stock eat the 

 seed on the plant. If cut early the seed is not injurious to 

 horses. 



Question — '* You didn't say how much of the seed of the tall 

 oat grass you would put to the acre? " 



Prof. Lazenby: "I think it is about two pounds lighter per 

 bushel than the orchard grass and contains less seed. About 

 three bushels is the rate we use it. The orchard grass, the 

 June grass, red-top and this oat grass, weigh about the same 

 per measured bushel, and where we know the seed to be good 

 we use just about the same quantity, about two bushels per 

 acre. When we add clover we sow about the same quantity. 

 One and one-half bushels of rye grass is sufficient for an acre." 



Mr. Boyd: "I have found it necessary to put in three bushels 

 of orchard grass." 



Prof. Lazenby: "That would depend altogether on he qual- 

 ity of your seed. We test our seed always beforehand. We 

 found it a matter of some difficulty, but by separating it, count- 

 ing out one or twc hundred and putting them in our seed tester, 

 we would get an idea of how many seed we had and the num- 

 ber of seeds in a small weight is surprising. I had one of the 

 students make a little estimate of the number of seeds there was 

 in a bushel of this red-top. We had a little cup made very 

 carefully that was of exact dimensions; we knew it was a 

 fraction of a given bulk. We counted all the seeds that it would 

 take to fill that, and we found that there are four hundred and 

 fifty thousand seeds in one ounce of this grass. 



Now, in conclusion, I would simply say this: I hope that 

 every dairyman here will arrange next spring to make, not an 

 extensive^ not an expensive experiment with these grasses, but 

 try some of our newer varieties. You can afford to do that 

 surely when our horticulturalists are testing so many things just 



