Farm and garden annual, spring 1906 . d by sow-ing a mixture ofGrasses, as no mat-ter how good onei n d i v i d ual grassmay be there is al-ways more or lesschance of a totalfailure, as has oftenbeen demonstratein Timothy sowingin late years, while,with the mixturesthe failure of anyjone variety of grasscomposing it is not]sufficient to endanger or materiallyaffect the result ofthe sowing; again,by sowing a well-iarranged mixt ure,we get in such va-fxieties as are best?adapted for partic-ular purposes and,soils. Where a Haycrop only is desired,sve use the tallergrowing grassesand such as will
Farm and garden annual, spring 1906 . d by sow-ing a mixture ofGrasses, as no mat-ter how good onei n d i v i d ual grassmay be there is al-ways more or lesschance of a totalfailure, as has oftenbeen demonstratein Timothy sowingin late years, while,with the mixturesthe failure of anyjone variety of grasscomposing it is not]sufficient to endanger or materiallyaffect the result ofthe sowing; again,by sowing a well-iarranged mixt ure,we get in such va-fxieties as are best?adapted for partic-ular purposes and,soils. Where a Haycrop only is desired,sve use the tallergrowing grassesand such as will allfipen about the same time; where a Hay crop first and pasture afterwards isdesired, we select the grasses, putting in a proportion of thetaller ones for the Hay crop, and the dwarfer and close-grow-ing sorts to fill up the bottom and give a close and compactpasture. We also arrange to have varieties that come intomaturity both early and late in the season, thus keeping upa continuous growth and furnishing grazing until late in the. year. Mixtures of this kind are of great value to dairv farm-ers, for they not only furnish a rousing Hay crop earlv in theseason (three or four weeks ahead of Timothy or Timothyand Clover), and the grasses recover so quicklv that thev areready to be pastured within a few days after cutting, and willcontinue to furnish good pasturage until very late in the quick results are desired, we advise sowing grassmixtures without a cover crop, such as Rye, Oats or Barley. We had tested atour own groundseight different mix-tures of grasses andclovers sown downon one-eighth of anacre each; all madea good start withthe exception of themixture of Timothyand Clover. TheTimothy in thispatch proved a to-tal failure, not aspear having comethrough the ground;the Clover plantswere the only thingvisible in this pieceof ground. The other sevenmixtures made agrand showing, andhad formed by Au-gust a thick andclose sward ofgrass, which en-tirely covered thegr
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