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lowing year as it ever will, and the quality will be excellent ; but 

 if sown in connection with winter rye or wheat, it will be put 

 back a whole year. The grain is of no advantage to the grass 

 whatever, but rather the contrary. 



" The only exception I would make in favor of sowing grass 

 and winter grain together is when the grain is to be cut early, as 

 Boon as it heads, for feeding green or to make into hay. Cutting 

 the grain so early in the spring gives time for the grass to make 

 one and sometimes two full crops the first year. 



"On good, moist, rich land, I have had excellent success 

 in seeding grass in spring upon green sward turned over the pre- 

 vious fall and the surface thoroughly pulverized before winter 

 and again made fine and mellow in spring. By this method, 

 grass land may be kept producing full crops of grass every year 

 without planting, but it will need reseeding of tener than if an 

 occasional hoed crop is grown. Timothy is one of the poorest 

 kinds of grass for spring seeding without grain, but if sown in 

 August it will produce a full crop the next summer. Orchard 

 grass is one of the best varieties for spring seeding. A great 

 amount of grass seed is annually lost by sowing it in connection 

 with spring or winter grain ; the grain crops being harvested in 

 the hottest part of the year, leaving the tender and previously 

 shaded grass plants to be burned up leaf and root by the scorch- 

 ing sun." 



Mr. Howard, of Georgia, writes: "There can be no doubt 

 that sowing seed with grain should always be avoided. It involves 

 the loss of a year in either hay or pasture. If sown with grain, 

 when this is cut the young grass and clover are very tender, having 

 been shaded by the grain. The cutting suddenly exposes them 

 to the sun at the hottest season of the year. There is great 

 danger that they will be burned out. In the event of sowing 

 grass seed with grain, he must always remember that by so doing 

 he loses a year and endangers the grass." 



