GEASSES. I8y 



White Clover is a pasture grass very much prized in 

 the best dairy regions, and should be sown in all niixtures for 

 permanent pastures. Nothing gives a better flow of milk than 

 the clovers. 



Time to sow Grass Seed. We advise early spring a? th« 

 best time to sow clover and orchard grass, which should always 

 be sown together, either on the late snows or as soon as it can 

 be harrowed in. If timothy is to be grown with clover, (a 

 practice we cannot commend,) the timothy should be sown in 

 the fall, and the clover brushed in in the spring. We consider 

 it well to sow a mixture of grass seed with all the small grains. 

 The growth between harvesting and fall plowing makes a great 

 deal of manure for the next crop, besides shading the land. We 

 conclude that with all the other grasses that we have recom- 

 mended for cultivation the best time to sow is in the fall as soon 

 as the ground begins to be moistened by the fall rain,?, the 

 ground being prepared before the rainy season commences. If 

 sown before this time, much of the seed is likely to be burned, 

 or dried up and lost. Grass seed may be trown with corn. The 

 ground must be thoroughly worked at the last hoeing, and the 

 seed sown and harrowed with a fine toothed harrow. Six 

 pounds clover, one peck each of orchard grass, red top and 

 timothy, is a good mixture for this purpose ; we prefer, however, 

 making the quantity of these a little smaller, and adding small 

 quantities of other grasses. 



How MUCH Seed per Acre, is a very important question 

 Opinion and practice are very much divided, but it is clear 

 that we do not sow a sufl&cient variety of seeds, to take the 

 fullest possession of the soil. We sow two or three varieties 

 together, while in a natural pasture or meadow, twenty to 

 thirty varieties may be found growing in a single square rod. 

 Twelve pounds of clover seed per acre, with ten of orchard 



