The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-02-19
bronze grass? Will it do well as far south

bronze grass? Will it do well as far south
as this?'
Bronze grass sown In the spring as
early as the land is in good condition has
given satisfactory results in the North
west. A good stand has been secured
also by sowing as late as the first Of
August upon land which has been Guilt
waited regularly during the first part of
the season. The cultivation retains the
moisture and destroys all weeds. Upon
land which is not in danger of drifting
SOW it without nurse crop of any kind.
Many of our people have failed with 1t
by seeding 1t with nurse crop. Upon
land which drifts badly a nurse crop Of
oats sown light-forty or fifty pounds per
acre-may prove advantageous, but the
oats should be cut for hay at the time
1t comes into blossom, In order that 1t
may not shade or dry out the soil too
much for the grass.
1t can be sown broadcast by hand and
narrowed in. When sown broadcast upon
land prepared ordinarily well use eight
teen or twenty pounds per acre. y neigh
Dor, j. o. Smith. taught me to seed 1t
with an ordinary grain drill In manner
which seems to me much, more salts
factory The seed of bronze grass Is very
chaffy, and on that account will not feed
through the drill without help. Mr..
Smiths appliance consists of a strip of
inch board three inches wide, with spikes
driven through 1t to correspond with each
cup or hole in the seeder box. A snort
handle is placed in the middle of the
strip upon the upper side BY filling the
grain box half full or less of seed and
agitating it with the appliance described
it feeds through the drill in good form.
Run the drill shallow-an inch and a
half or two inches deep. My observation
leads me to believe that fifteen pounds
of seed per acre will be sufficient when
put In with q drill, as by that means
nearly every seed is planted where 1t will
grow.
The stand Of grass the first season
usually looks very poor. lnsomuch that
some of our farmers have plowed up
fields during or at the close of the first
season, believing that their seed was
poor or had failed from some other
cause 1t will produce some late sum,
mer and fall pasture the first season.
The weeds will spring up on the land
the first season strong and vigorous and
should be moved off once or twice to
prevent too much shading and to save
the weeds from ripening seed. 1t Will
spread and occupy the ground in a sur
prfsing way the second spring and usual
ly produces a good crop Of hay and seed
as the owner may choose. Very few
weeds have an opportunity to grow with
it during the second season. If the grass
is cut for hay NOW 1t when in blossom.
1t will then make good hay and produce
a good aftermath. The yield In follow
ing years will also be better than it will
when the grass Is allowed to ripen seed.
Supt. s.. A. Bedford, Of the Manitoba
experiment farm, says: I'm average
seasons 1t can be depended upon to pro-
duce a profitable crop of seed for two
seasons, or crop of hay for two or
three years, depending on the seasons.
Its limit for pasturing purposes has not
yet been reached here. At the end Of the
sixth season field on this farm con-
tinued to produce profitable amount OF