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ask some one to suggest a good plan for a dairy barn. The 
way a barn was built had a good deal to do with the quan¬ 
tity and quality of the manure as well as with the manner 
of handling it. His experience was that manure 
drawn from barn fresh and applied was in all respects the 
best. And unless the soil is of a leechy quality there is 
nothing lost by putting it on fresh, for all kinds of grain. 
You can get a good crop of oats or corn from it the second 
yeai if you do not the first. Some farmers are at present 
trying the experiment of sowing clover and rye together 
and plowing them under to obviate the necessity of draw¬ 
ing out manure. They use from two to four quarts of clover 
seed with the rye, and after these have been plowed under 
the ground is again seeded down. He had been trying this 
but aid not know yet whether it is a success. In all his 
experience he had never got land too rich. 
He always s<3ws oats the first year sod is broken, and 
he never failed to get a good crop. He thought we had an 
almost unlimited amount of wealth in our soils. 
Use clover as suggested. If used for manure under the 
right conditions it added wonderful richness to soil. 
He didn t take much stock in this idea*of rest for soil. 
It needed development more than rest. His idea of rest 
was rotation in crops. Land is better when it is constantly 
producing something. He had tried salt on his land, but 
not enough to be able to advise in the matter. He thought, 
however, that all such applications of that kind acted simply 
as stimulants. The barn question was an important one in 
considering the disposition of manure. He would like to 
know if any of his hearers had ever used a manure cellar 
in his barn. He was well aware of the fact that if we 
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