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found who make a practice of harrowing their wheat ground in the 

 spring to insure a covering of the clover seed and hence a better 

 stand. Some sow their clover seed and then harrow, while others har- 

 row first and then sow the seed. Still others harrow, sow the seed and 

 then harrow again to cover it. The question at once arises, will this 

 harrowing injure the growing wheat? But the universal testimony of 

 those who have tried it is that, especially during dry years, it is a great 

 benefit to it. Wheat has been thoroughly harrowed as many as three 

 times with good results. Again, will it injure the timothy sown the fall 

 before! Some of the timothy tluis sown will be torn out, but enough 

 will live through at least two liarrowings to give a sufficient stand of this 

 crop. The clover is of so much more importance that it should have first 

 consideration. The seeding of timothy can likewise be done in the 

 spring with the clover. 



In seeding clover after this method there is but one rule as to 

 the time of seeding — wait until the field is in good condition to harrow. 

 Men who follow this method begin seeding at the earliest possible 

 moment, but are in no hurry, even sowing as late as the first of May. 

 It is well not to put it off until the wheat gets so high as to interfere 

 with the harrow, but sowing any time before this, if the harrowing is 

 well done, practically insures a good stand of clover, unless the spring 

 is abnormally dry. A good sharp harrow should be used and it should 

 be sufficiently weighted, if necessary, to do effective work. 



The greatest objection to this method is that the work must be 

 done when the farmer is busy preparing ground for other crops, but 

 in view of the great value of clover as a soil renewer and soil builder, 

 together with its great importance in the rotation, this measure of un- 

 certainty in securing a good stand cannot be urged too strongly on 

 farmers for their careful consideration. At least this method should 

 hold an important place as a supplement to those already in use. For 

 instance, where it is the practice to sow seed early, and if for some 

 reason, as it often happens, it is discovered later that there is a very 

 inferior stand, then more seed should be sown and harrowing resorted 

 to. No farmer who is keeping apace with his business can afford to let 

 a single year pass with a failure to get a good stand of clover. 



Using a disk or shoe drill. — In some places men were found who 

 were using their disk drills to great advantage in sowing clover in 

 their wheat. A few shoe drills were also used with equally good re- 

 sults. In using the drill for this purpose they sow the seed with the 

 seeder, placing it in front of the grain box, or with the new type of 

 drill they allow the seed to go down through the grain tubes and be 



