Currie's farm and garden annual : spring 1915 . cessful conditions,does not extend beyond a few years, consequently have to bere-sown, with all the attendant expense of seeding, plowingand harrowing, ledus to look for some-thing that gives agreater return of Hayper acre, and at thesame time be of amore permanentcharacter and not solikely to fail as Tim,othy. This can beaccomplished by sow-ing a mixture ofgrasses, as no matterhow good one indi-vidual grass may is always moreor less chance of atotal failure, as hasoften been demon-strated in Timothysowings, while withthe mixtures the fa
Currie's farm and garden annual : spring 1915 . cessful conditions,does not extend beyond a few years, consequently have to bere-sown, with all the attendant expense of seeding, plowingand harrowing, ledus to look for some-thing that gives agreater return of Hayper acre, and at thesame time be of amore permanentcharacter and not solikely to fail as Tim,othy. This can beaccomplished by sow-ing a mixture ofgrasses, as no matterhow good one indi-vidual grass may is always moreor less chance of atotal failure, as hasoften been demon-strated in Timothysowings, while withthe mixtures the fail-ure of any one variety of grass composing it is notsufficient to endanger or materially affect the result ofthe sowing; again, by sowing a well-arranged mixturewe get in such varieties as are best adapted for par-ticular purposes and soils. Where a Hay crop only isdesired, we use the taller growing grasses and such as willall ripen about the same time; where a Hay crop first, andpasture afterwards, is desired, we select the grasses, putting. mmm in a proportion of the taller ones for the Hay crop, and thedwarfer and close-growing sorts to fill up the bottom andgive a close and compact pasture. We also arrange to havevarieties that come into maturity both early and late inthe season, thus keeping up a continuous growth and fur-nishing grazing until late in the year. Mixtures of thiskind are of great value to dairy farmers, for they not only furnish a rousingHay crop, early inthe season (three orfour weeks ahead ofT i m o t h y), and thegrasses recover soquickly that they areready to be pasturedwithin a few daysafter cutting, andwill continue to fur-nish good pasturageuntil very late in thefall. Where quick re-sults are desired, weadvise sowing grassmixtures without acover crop, such asRye, Oats, or BarleyIt is of the utmostimportance to sowon clean land, finely pulverized and in good tilth, thatwhich has been the previous season in a hoed or cul-tivated crop being best. Sow b
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