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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 100 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 100 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 rai^ijg^large crops. Believed clover 
the cheapest fertih'z^^^^^ha^Tearly it would 
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