244 PREPARATION OF THE SOIL AND SEEDING. 



SOWS fifteen pounds of grass and eight pounds of clover seed per 

 acre. 



Daniel Batchelor, of New York, recommends a bushel and a 

 half of orchard grass and half a bushel of tall oat-grass. 



"A heavy but not wet, clay loam devoted to meadow, should be 

 sown with Timothy, red-top, fowl meadow, rough-stalked meadow, 

 and Italian rye, at the rate of about six pounds each to the acre, 

 in a mixture; to this may be added three pounds of medium 

 clover. 



' ' For a wet, peaty, black soil : Rough-stalked meadow, six 

 pounds; red top, eight pounds; meadow foxtail, four pounds, 

 and Alsike, six pounds, would be a good mixture per acre. 



"For land much shaded the following mixture is excellent : One 

 bushel of orchard grass, one of meadow oat-grass, and five or six 

 pounds of wood meadow grass to the acre." 



For New England, A. W. Cheever recommends the following: 

 " If Timothy be sown alone we do not consider a bushel of seed 

 any too much for an acre. Of red-top we would sow at least two 

 bushels. Of orchard grass, two bushels, and a bushel of June 

 grass with it. Rhode Island bent requires less seed by measure 

 than red-top, as the seed is usually much less chaffy. No rule 

 need be given for clover, so much depends upon the amount 

 of seed contained in the land, and in the mt nure applied." 



Professor S. A. Knapp recommends for lovva and similar soils 

 and climates, for early and late pasture, the following mixture : 



Lbs. 

 Blue grass 8 



Timothy 6 



For summer pasture: 



Lbs. 

 Timothy 6 



Orchard grass 6 



For permanent dairy pastures on most heavy soils of the East, 

 Sibley & Co. recommend: 



Lbs. 

 Orchard grass 6 



White clover 1 



Lbs. 

 Red clover 4 



