76 GRASSES AND HOW TO GROW THEM. 



wind must be shut off sufficiently to do the work prop- 

 erly. The hay or straw, as it is sometimes called when 

 threshed, has some feeding value, hut it is very w^oody 

 and is not much relished by live stock. The stripper 

 has occasionally been used in gathering the seed but 

 when thus gathered the straw is virtually of no use for 

 grazing stock. 



The seed should be carefully fanned before putting 

 it on the market. The aim should be to so clean it 

 that it will take the market as 'No. 1 and so bring the 

 highest price. This it will not do unless carefully 

 cleaned, and with a fanning mill well furnished with 

 sieves, no matter how good the quality of the seed may 

 be, it will be found difficult to remove some kinds of 

 w^eed seeds that may be present. It may also prove 

 difficult if not impossible even to remove all the clover 

 seeds that may be present should this be desired. Espe- 

 cially is this true of alsike clover, the seeds of which 

 are so nearly of the same size as those of timothy. But 

 some of the seeds of medium red and mammoth clover 

 may be so small that they even cannot be all removed. 

 When timothy is wanted for seed, therefore, it is not 

 wise to grow clover or the clovers along with it. But 

 for home sowing the presence of clover seed in many 

 instances would not be objectionable. 



As many as 7 or 8 bushels of seed have been threshed 

 from an acre of timothy, but from 3 to 4 bushels would 

 be a good crop, 4 bushels being above the average. In 

 some instances not more than 2 busliels are realized ])er 

 acre. Several crops of seed may be taken in successive 

 years from such soils, but the tendency of such crop- 



