THE PRACTICAL COUNTRY GENTLEMAN 



feet apart each way If the corn has been 

 checked. If drilled in, the seed should be 

 dropped about eighteen inches apart in the rows. 

 At the last cultivation, between July 20 and 

 Aug. 5, the field may be gone over with a spike- 

 tooth cultivator and the grass and clover seed 

 for next season's crop may be sown In the corn 

 intended for the silo. This method has been 

 tried very successfully by Professor Brooks of 

 the Massachusetts State Agricultural College. 

 Writing of it he says: 



" The quantity of the seed used should be rather 

 larger than may be required when it is sown alone, 

 as a part of it fails to reach the ground, being caught 

 and retained by the broad leaves of the corn. Dog- 

 day weather should be selected for sowing the seed, 

 and if it can be scattered upon the freshly cultivated 

 surface just before one of the heavy showers which 

 occur so frequently during these days, the seed will need 

 no covering and will often have germinated within 

 forty-eight hours from the time of sowing. The 

 shade of the com crop is favorable to the retention of 

 moisture, and on all except the driest soils there will be 

 moisture enough to keep the young plants going. The 

 corn protects from the sun, but does not crowd. It is 

 not likely to lodge and stifle the young grass, as a crop 



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