Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1889-03-28
SOWING GRASS SEED.
why sprinE work IL Becoming Nor
Popular Every Year.


Popular EVerY Year.
What world OF change This H.
surely, aud change is no more app
parent in any other direction than Ia
farm practice Heretofore II has been
thought Indispensable to have a grain
Drop for the protection CD OF grass
and clover seed, as il grass and clover
can not take care OF themselves! They
do this too we'll when they spring up
as weeds where we don't want them
and, In fact they are able TO do il a.
well where We do waut them; cOnse-
quently we are gradually cutting loose
from the foster crops, and are sowing
clover and grass just as We SOW any
other crops, giving them all the
ground, and all the light aud air !
sowed few acres OF clover and timO.
thy, last spring, alone. The land was
thoroughly we'll plowed ana worked
with pulverizcr. The grass and
clover-s peek OF each per acre were
sown, and light, sloping-tooth
harrow was ran over the surface. IL
was pleasing sight TO see the young
grass, like hair coming through the
surface in two weeks after sowing, aud
the round clover leaves interspersed
among the tiny spires OF the grass.
Nothing interfered with that grass. aud
itcame on quickly, covering the ground
by the end OF May Qt was sown ia
April). aud ia August it was dense
mat. 10 September | turned lot OF
calves on 10 il aud they Ied il down
and now il doe not differ ~ an ia APP
peaPancc from an adjoining part OF the
field seeded the year before with oats.
But oats! \ few years ago the man
who sowcd grass seed with oats would
risk being thought imhccle AZ least,
perhaps crazy. Fall grain wa, thought
the only crop 70 seed grass with, ana
clover was sown on the snow. OF
on the frozen ground, or on the
hare beaten surface haphazard
in the spying 70 do OF die. Usually
II did die, Then the poor catch
was complained OF and seedlings thai
had failed made poor meadows and
Scanty hay, The thing cured itself
Grass would no longer grow III the old
way, and fresh land must be provided
ana oats necessarily usurped the place
OF the fall grain | say usurped, ne.
cause the crop is usurper, needless
aud injurious, because il rohs the
grass and clover Of the food they need
and must have CT perish. aut grass
and clover ARE sown with oats, aud the
practice is becoming popular and gen,
eral. just rs boy on log iesrs 10
get out Of reach OF the shore OF the
pond, and keeps within knee depth OF
water, so We farmers hang on 10 M"
spring GRAIN seeding, aud can nol
break loose because the young grass is
80 tender. we taink Ii il tender
doubtless, but it Is too tender to De
burdened with hungry crop to starve
and shade il from the air and
sun. II one can not bring himself to
this belief, he must choose the oar
crop as the foster aud IL he does we'll
with the land, giving il manure liber-
ally, the oats will pay for it, aud the
grass will repay for it. and til the soil
well; the grass and clover will make
out 70 stand the strain and show fine
aftermath on the Stubble, and give "a
good account OF themselves the next
Year have about thirty acres thus
seeded with oats, not shat thought
the oats helped the grass, but that the
land was good enough for both ss II
was--snd | wanted the oats anyhow.
But for several years past have iost
every clover-sceding made in fall crops,
and ] have had but poor timothy and
other grass from fall sowing. II one
will study the drift OF experience nov
given In the agricultural journals, he
will find that the old method Is fast
being abandoned aud that spring SOW
ing IS becoming popular and success
FIJI. Thus We change and advance. bm
unless one reads Of what j. going on
he gets left behind Henry stewart.
Ia Rural New Yorker