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produce a fair crop of hay the following season. Under such 

 conditions, when sown with wheat, it produces so much hay as 

 to interfere with the harvesting of the crop as well as materially 

 to reduce the yield of wheat. In such regions the custom is 

 either to sow the timothy alone or sow it later say ten days 

 after wheat has been sown. These localities are the exception 

 rather than the rule. Generally the practise of sowing the grass 

 seed with the grain crop is based on sound business principles. 



26. Method of Seeding. Grass seeds may be sown by hand; 

 and with certain chaffy seeds, such as uncleaned redtop, un- 



cleaned Kentucky blue grass, or 

 smooth brome grass seeds, this is 

 the only satisfactory method. For 

 timothy, re-cleaned redtop, re- 

 cleaned Kentucky blue grass, the 

 clovers and alfalfa, grass seeders 

 give more satisfactory results. The 

 grass seeder which throws the seed 

 Hand seeder from a revo i v i ng disk may be used 



under a greater variety of conditions, but the evenness of 

 seeding is more affected by the wind than v/hen the so-called 

 wheelbarrow seeder is used. Grass seeders are also attached 

 to grain drills, and when grass seed is to be sown at the same 

 time as the grain this is the most satisfactory method of 

 sowing. The spouts are generally adjustable so that seeds may 

 be sown in front or behind the grain hoes, thus making it pos- 

 sible to vary the depth of seeding, depending on the character 

 of the soil or the kind of seed. 



27. Time of Seeding. Grasses may be successfully sown at 

 any portion of the growing season, but in humid climates fall 

 sowing is usually the most successful, either when sown alone 

 or with grain crops, as is the most usual practise. Sowing 



