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along with fall turnips. They claim that the turnips 

 protected the crop in winter and fed it the next summer. 



^^^lether timothy should be sown alone or with a 

 nurse crop must be determined by the object sought from 

 sowing it. Where a full crop of timothy is desired the 

 first season after sowing, it ought to be sown alone in the 

 early autumn as intimated above. Sowing it thus in the 

 early spring would almost certainly insure a stand and 

 would also provide more or less pasture the same season, 

 but it would not seem to be good practice in farming to 

 sow timothy alone in the spring, unless where a full crop 

 could be looked for the same season. 



All things considered, a good stand of timothy is 

 more certain when sown along with a winter rather 

 than a spring nurse crop, and it will also furnish more 

 pasture after the crop has been removed. The dry 

 weather of summer more frequently kills the timothy if 

 spring sown than does the harsh winter weather that, 

 which was properly sown in the autumn. Of the win- 

 ter crops, rye and barley are probably the best; and 

 after these wheat and oats in the order named (see page 

 32). If these crops are pastured rather than harvested, 

 the return in pasture the same season from the timothy 

 will be increased. When sown in the spring, the follow- 

 ing nurse crops are good in the order named, viz., spring 

 rye or speltz, barley, spring wheat and oats. Timothy 

 may also be sown with grain grown for pasture. Such 

 grain may be grown alone or in combination with other 

 grains, and the timothy also may be sown sinsrly or in 

 combination with other grasses and clovers. (See page 

 35.) 



