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ON moist loan or SANDY land any time
in September ! considered the rtght
time t. SOW crimson clover. Here ON
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/ weeks can he counted on for plenty %
/ moisture, and shade Twelve to fifteen
/ pounds of clean seed or thirty TO forty
pounds of seed in chaff Is enough to use
! per acre. If we'll distributed. "a this "rpp
stools heavily when il has good
. chance ~yv on til surface Dr cover
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/ with crimson clover. Common rye. or
! even Italian rye grass may bc SOW II
with crimson clover when the design Is
to ,ut for green food or hay. hese
can about Keep pacs- with the clover.
We would use one half buShel of rye or
one bu>hel Italian rye grass per acre
! with eight to twelve pounds of the clo-
yer seed.
Clover finds its own nitrogen by eX-
traction from the atmosphere aided by
peculiar microbes of the soil hence only
pho>phates and potash, or lime Ia set
these free in the soil would be needed.
The needs of the partlcu soil should
! be consulted as to the element It lacks
which is needed to produce bountiful
crop of clover. Hence trials of potash,
phosphate and the two combined would
be in order wherever it is desira bic TO
use chemicals for this crop. Amounts
should he varied, too, as what would be
a protta bic amount for one field or
farm might prove too little or too much
for those adjoining, We would broad
east before or after the harrow at seed
ing or use as top dressing little La
ter.
Bermuda grass will smother out some
of the grasses but the soil bearing it
will proba bly, be your best place for
Timothy. For ordinary sowing, or
chard grass is hardy and rank grow
er and will beat Timothy, but it gets
woody if not cut early and has not so
good a reputation for hay, although
properly handled itlis equally as good
or better and of the same character.
1t is one to three weeks earlier than
Timothy. Sow two bushels per acre,
and with it two bushels Kentucky
blue grass and six pounds common red
clover. OF Timothy eight to ten pounds
of seed with six to eight pounds of pea
vine clover would be fair seeding on
the Bermuda grass soil. Where the
Bermuda is absent we would add four
or five pounds of white clover seed, OF
two bushels of meadow fOXtail, to fur
nish aftermath to protect the Timothy
bulbs from the sun, otherwise il
would be in danger of destruction
after first moving. 1t would be
well to grow crop of pea vines
: this summer to pillow in for the
grass seeding. Plow deep, turning the
vines well under when nearly or quite
all ripe: harrow to Seed bed without
disturbing the vines and sow the SEED
then whether August OF as Late as No
vember.