Convention— utilization of wastes. 
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True economy is to place fresh straw, or any other food, before 
your animals, and not give them more at once than they will con¬ 
sume, or all that is valuable for food, and make them icarm — using 
the refuse feed for bedding, that it may take up the urine and drop¬ 
pings, to be thrown into the pile and composted with it. 
Another great waste, and one too in which the great farming 
mind needs more thorough education, is in seeding the land, and to 
make the most of the seeding for profit and to improve the land. 
Yes, you everlasting wheat grower, I am particularly talking to 
you — you who have persistently impoverished the land that once 
raised good crops, now will not raise more than will barely pay the 
expense of raising, and in many instances not that. You are wast¬ 
ing one of the best estates God ever gave to man. How to utilize 
that land to the best advantage is the question that should be asked 
by every farmer in the state and in the west. It can be answered 
in one single sentence, 
SEED TO CLOVER. 
That will purify the land of weeds, enrich the land and enrich 
the owner, if properlj’' fed to stock. You will pardon me if I am 
enthusiastic on this point, for I am a regular clover fanatic. Yes, I 
believe in clover with all my heart. How to use it with profit will 
be now to consider. 
We suppose that every farmer knows how to properly seed the 
land, and we shall confine our remarks to the cutting, curing and 
feeding. 
As soon as the blossoms are fully developed begin to cut your 
clover, usually about the middle of June, commencing as soon as 
the dew is off in the morning, and cut what you can rake and put 
in bunches in the afternoon after five o’clock, for y^ou want ail the 
sun you can get. Being put in bunches let it lay about thirty-six 
hours, then spread, and in an hour or two it will be fit to draw. I 
usually, to facilitate the cutting, cut in the afternoon after three 
o’clock, and cut until night; it will not become wilted so as to in¬ 
jure before night, so we can commence the earlier the next after¬ 
noon to put up. The hay should not have so much sun after being 
spread as to cause the leaves to drop off; it is better to be put up a 
little too damp than too dry, and salt it, about four quarts to the 
ton.' Cutting thus early will give the second crop time to mature 
seed if it should fill well, which may be determined beforehand, so 
