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make more experiments, but I honestly advise that you don't 

 put much money in these other grasses until you do experiment 

 with them. If you only plant a piece two rods square you can 

 see the habit of the plant and learn a good deal about it." 



Mr. Boyd: "I put in ten acres of orchard grass ten years 

 ago, and that field is good to-day. I put in two bushels to the 

 acre and I think it would have been a little better if I had put a 

 little more. This last year I put in ten acres more, sowing 

 three bushels, and that is very satisfactory. It cost one dollar 

 and ninety cents a bushel. If I had put in two bushels of blue 

 grass it would have cost one dollar and a quarter a bushel and 

 I would have saved the difference between one dollar and 

 twenty-five cents and one dollar ninety and the one extra 

 bushel. Now, the point of that all is, that I can produce as 

 much from my ten acres of orchard grass as I could from 

 twenty acres of blue grass." 



Mr. Stickler: "I sowed some orchard grass thirty years 

 ago. I put it in a fence corner where I had a new clearing. It 

 came up there and it is there yet; I paid three dollars a bushel 

 for the seed to try it, and I got bushels of seed off of that in a 

 short time. Every farmer can raise his seed in this country." 



Mr. Boyd: "I am specially in favor of orchard grass for 

 dairy cattle. It is worth twice as much as timothy for dairy 

 cattle, and from seven acres of the field where I sowed two 

 bushels to the acre I cut thirty-six two-horse loads of hay one 

 season. I cut it twice every season. The yield this year was 

 not very good, and 1885 there was rather a poor crop, but it 

 was far better than any crop of timothy in the neighborhood, 

 and it is almost twice as much as you raise of the timothy." 



Mr. Hayes: "Do you consider it as valuable for pasture as 

 you do for hay ? " 



Mr. Boyd: "I do, but I do not believe in a pasture of one 

 grass. 1 believe in a mixture of grasses, I believe in permanent 

 pasture, and I would have every different kind of grass that 

 grows." 



Mr. Periam : " I will add my testimony to the value of 



