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growing. Mr. Allen says if it grows the second year it wfill be 
light and spindling. I cut three tons of hay to the acre. This 
last year, on six acres, 1 got six bushels of seed to the acre, and on 
four acres, two bushels. The only difference was in the time of 
cutting the hay. This was the third year of the clover. If that 
is spindling, poor clover, I am not a judge. I call it a good crop; 
six bushels of seed to the acre on a part of it, and two bushels on 
the balance. 
President Stilson: That cut first produced six bushels. 
Mr. Clark: Yes, sir. This is the second crop of seed from the 
same clover. It was plastered once. I left a place where I did not 
sow plaster to test the matter. The part not plastered did not 
produce half a bushel to the acre, and it was on the lower side of 
the ridge where it was naturally the best soil. 
Question: What time did you sow your plaster? 
Mr. Clark: I sowed it in May. 
Question: What kind of clover is yours ? 
Mr. Clark: It is what is called medium. There are two kinds 
only, large and small. Medium is a misnomer. 
Question: How much plaster did you sow to the acre? 
Mr. Clark: I calculate to sow one hundred pounds. There 
was another experiment I wish to speak of. My corn-field 
this year is adjoining the clover. I manured it five years ago with 
twenty-five loads of manure, and I have manured it again since 
that. Where I sowed my clover has been pretty poor. I sowed 
corn on it, anticipating a poor crop. It was plowed in the fall at 
the same time with the other land. The corn looked the best on 
the clover-ground, and produced the best and largest crop. 
Colonel Warner: Mr. Allen has made the statement that clover is 
a biennial, and Mr. Boyce has made it to me personally. One of my 
neighbors had this spring a piece of three-year-old cloyer-sod. He 
sowed plaster on it, and got a crop of fine hay; cut the seed after¬ 
ward which yielded five bushels to the acre. 
Mr. Boyce: In reference to red clover being a biennial, there is a 
good deal of difference of opinion; as a general rule it is. There are 
exceptions. Red clover is like many other plants. If not ex¬ 
hausted by bearing seed, they will live on for a longer time. 
In the statements just made, all the conditions were favorable for 
the growth of the plant and the seed crop. Whoever cultivates 
