The Birmingham age-herald., 1906-09-12

hay, a second crop is allowed to grow up and go to seed. This crop, seed and all, Is turned under. This seeds the land for years. The following fall, wheat is sown and the clover seed in the soil comes up. and the same process of hay and turning under crop of seed may be carried on in rotation for years. Crimson clover makes so beautiful a flower that many use 1t for bordering flower beds
 Twenty pounds of pure new seed should be used per acre. and care should be used in securing new seed. for old seed will not grow. The seed may be sown broadcast or with a drill Delaware is the state where great quantities of crimson clover seed are grown annually.
 Burr Glover and Bermuda Grass.
 A combination of burr clover and Der muda grass makes fine permanent pas ture when properly managed. The burr clover is an annual. and should be sowed in the fall the same as the crimson clover. It may be sown alone or with winter vetches or winter grain, but the better plan Is, where there is pasture of Bermuda grass, to SOW tho burr clover sed in September right on the Bermuda and harrow it in. Of course, the har- row can only scratch the surface, and 1t will be well in most cases to harrow first, SOW the seed and then harrow
 
 ton. In fact, several harrowings might be beneficial. This work, if possible. should be done just before a rain. This combination also makes 8 fine winter lawn. In the fall when the Bermuda be- gins to turn brown, SOW the clover seed right on the grass and harrow, or for small lawns, rake in.
 A top dressing of well routed compost or bone meal should be used. at the rate of from two to four hundred pounds per acre. Formerly much of the burr clover seed Sold was sold in the burrs. and these were disagreeable and very diff cult to handle. Now, however, the seeds are threshed from the burrs and can be bought clean, the same as any other clover seed.
 There is a prevailing idea that the burrs would injure the stock. This Is not the idea at all in the use of this clover. The clover makes no burrs until it is ready to make seed. and unless seed is wanted, 1t can be mown and pastured the same as other clovers, and so be prevented from going to seed and mak- ing burrs. The seed of this clover is produced in small burr very similar in appearance to the common sand burr, and is often taken for this worthless pest. The reader would do well to write the Amzi Golden Seed company. Bir- mingham, and get their bulletins on
 
 they publish.
 Orchard Grass.
 This Is one of our best winter grasses. It is a sticlser. comes early and re- mains late. giving, perhaps more fine winter grazing than any of our grasses. It is well adapted for nearly all the hill country of our southern states. Septem- Der is, perhaps, the best time for sowing in most of the sections. Sow not less than two bushels (twenty-eght pounds) per acre on soil prepared recommended for Sowing clover seed.
 English Blue Grass.
 This is another fine grass that will give good winter pasture. and like the or chard grass, 1t comes early and remains late, and often will grow the entire win ter in many sections, even as far north and west as southwest Missouri. Both orchard and English blue grass grow green nearly the entire winter. From September to November Is the best time to sow the seed. Tn fact this range of time will answer for the sowing of all clovers and grasses In many sections of the south. However. where conditions will permit. early sowings should be en- couraged.
 Sow from thirty to forty pounds of English Blue Grass seed per acre on well prepaired soils. The English Blue grass will thrive on wet soils equally as well as on high or uplands, It makes fine hay as well as fine pasture.
 Red Loys Grass and AIsyke Glover. A combination of these makes both hay and furnishes fine grazing, and grows most of the winter in many of our south ern states Red top grass and Alsike