. Farm crops; a practical treatise on the growing of American field crops: containing brief and popular advice on the seeding, cultivating, handling and marketing of farm crops, and on the management of lands for the largest returns. grasses take care ofthemselves. Were the grass areas as well andabundantly fertilized, not only would as much for-age result, but the soil would be put in an admir-able condition for corn and cotton when theselater come in the rotation. Of course it is to be understood that there is nobetter fertilizer for grass than stable manure, butwhere this is not available t
. Farm crops; a practical treatise on the growing of American field crops: containing brief and popular advice on the seeding, cultivating, handling and marketing of farm crops, and on the management of lands for the largest returns. grasses take care ofthemselves. Were the grass areas as well andabundantly fertilized, not only would as much for-age result, but the soil would be put in an admir-able condition for corn and cotton when theselater come in the rotation. Of course it is to be understood that there is nobetter fertilizer for grass than stable manure, butwhere this is not available the commercial fer- 22 FARM CROPS tilizers give good results and their use should be increased. Sowing Grass Seed.—Very light, chaffy seed, such as those of brome grass, especially the im-portant seed and awnedseed, such as those oftall meadow oat grass,do not feed throughseeding machines satis-factorily, and shouldtherefore, be sown byhand. Hand sowingshould always be donewhen the air is as stillas possible. It is well-nigh impossible to dis-tribute the seed evenlywhen the wind is blow-ing. Unless the soweris decidedly expert, it isbest to sow half of theseed at a time, makingthe second sowing cross-wise to the first. This. MEADOW FOXTAIL A hardy perennial grassmuch like timothy in appear-ance. Its chief value is inmixtures for permanent pas-tures and meadows. It is sel-dom grown alone. For nutri-tiveness it is about at a parwith timothy. It fancies richsoils and is best known in theMiddle and New Englandstates. msures a more evenstand. For such seedas will feed throughit, like timothy, red-top (recleaned,) clovers, and others that aresmall, round and clean, the wheelbarrow seeder isthe most satisfactory implement yet invented. Re-cleaned blue grass seed can be sown with thisimplement, but the uncleaned seed should besown by hand. Grass seeders are frequently at-tached to grain drills. They answer very well for HOW ROTATIONS HELP OUT 23 timothy to be sown with grain, but are
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