When and How 

 to Sow Spring 

 Grain, Clover 

 and Grass 

 Seed. 



Seeding and 

 Care of 

 Meadow and 

 Pasture Lands. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 



Cultivation for Spring Crops. 



See Diagram 54, page 102. 



We will now deal with No. 4 section of the 

 farm plan, which is all for grain. 



Spring grains follow the hoe crdps, corn and 

 roots, which received all the manure made on the 

 farm the year previous. This has been kept on the 

 surface along with the rotted clover sod from the 

 previous fall, and gives us two or three inches of 

 available plant food of the very best kind, suitable 

 to grow an abundant crop of grain and clover. 



The fall wheat was sown the previous fall, after 

 peas, and seeded with timothy at the same time the 

 wheat was sown; the red clover and alsike being 

 sown in the spring, with a grass seed sower (III. 52), 

 at the rate of seven pounds red clover and three 

 pounds alsike per acre. 



As soon as the land is dry, cross-harrow the fall 

 wheat to break up and pulverize the crust that has 

 been formed by the melting snows and spring rains. 

 This will improve the wheat and insure a catch of 

 clover. 



Spring wheat and oats should be sown as early 

 as possible in the spring, following corn and roots. 



The ribs that were made up in the fall are first 

 harrowed and cultivated down. If the subsoil is 

 clay it should be loosened nine or ten inches deep 

 with the stiff-tooth subsoiler, using three or four 

 horses. Again harrow to a fine tilth. Then sow 

 the wheat or oats with a grain drill at the rate of 

 one and a quarter bushels per acre of good sound 

 grain. The seed should be treated for smut in 



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