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to find out which are the best to raise on their land. One man 

 will often try twenty varieties of raspberries and as many straw- 

 berries, and he keeps right at it. Now, you can try some of 

 these newer grasses and see what the results will be, and if they 

 don't give good results don't be too swift to enter up judgment 

 and condemn them, but try once more, and if after the second 

 trial the results are still nil you can reasonably conclude that 

 for your soil and climate you don't want those varieties. But 

 remember this, that under other conditions they may still be the 

 very best grasses that can be selected. Because a grass does not 

 do well with us we cannot decide that it won't do well some- 

 where else." 



Mr. Boyd: "About Alsike clover?" 



Prof. Lazenby : " We never have done much with Alsike, 

 and do not consider we have given it a fair trial. We have 

 tried the Lucerne, and with us it is not profitable. It is too 

 coarse, the stock don't seem to be very fond of it. If you cut 

 it for hay it is difficult to cure. It is hardy, it springs up 

 year after year. In fact, we could hardly get rid of it, but it 

 does not yield with us anything like the quantity that we had 

 been led to expect." 



Question — "Did it winter-kill with you? " 



Prof. Lazenby: "No sir, it did not, it stood very well. As 

 I understand, this Lucerne is the same thing as the Alfafa of the 

 Rocky Mountain Slope, and perhaps I should say that we 

 planted it in a sheltered place and that may be the reason it 

 didn't winter-kill." 



Question — " Did you sow it broadcast?" 



Prof. Lazenby: " Sowed it broadcast." 



Question — "How is orchard grass in dry weather? " 



Pror. Lazenby: " First rate with us. During the past sum- 

 mer it has been very dry at Columbus. From the 10th of June 



till the 10th of November, five and a half months, we had but 

 six and a quarter inches of rain-fall, and that is a little less than 

 one-sixth of our average rain-fall for a year, but in spite of this 

 the orchard grass did well. It looked quite green when the 

 other grasses around were brown and sere." 



