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may be added red and alsike clovers. These three plants will form an 

 excellent pasture for two or three years. The usual amount of seed 

 sown for hay should be used, eight to twelve pounds of timothy, six 

 of red clover and three of alsike clover per acre. It would probably be 

 satisfactory to cut the first crop for hay. 



If the field is rather wet or acid it would be well to add four pounds 

 per acre of red-top to the above mixture. In fact, this grass adds materi- 



FiG. 155. — A stony hillside pasture of southern New York. This land has 

 nezfer been plowed and should never have been cleared. It will grow 

 trees better than anything else. 



ally to the amount of forage on well-drained land. It grows quickly 

 but does not crowd timothy or clovers where the soil is adapted to these. 

 Mixtures for permanent pastures. — In seeding a permanent pasture 

 a mixture must be used which will yield immediate returns but which 

 will also improve with age. Again, on good land, timothy should form 

 the foundation for such a pasture along with Kentucky blue-grass. 

 Meadow fescue and orchard-grass may also be added with profit. Red, 

 alsike and white clovers should be included. 



