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If a mixture of grasses and clovers is to be sown it is, moreover, 

 to be recommended to make two mixtures of it: one of the 

 grasses and another of the clovers and have them sown separately. 

 In this case Timothy (if at-all it is to occur in the mixture) might 

 be mixed with the clovers. 



Making only one mixture of grasses and clovers combined, would 

 result in the heavier clover-seeds sinking to the bottom of the 

 sack, causing same to be sown too thickly in one place and not 

 sufficiently in another. 



Then, as for sowing-time, spring (end of March or beginning of 

 April) is decidedly the best time. Sowing in autumn (August or 

 September) may under certain circumstances and conditions of 

 soil, climate and weather yield good results, the chance of success 

 is by a long way not so good as when sowing takes place in 

 spring. As a rule the weather in spring is, on account of its more 

 numerous and heavier rainfalls than in August or September more 

 favorable to the germination of the seeds and the development of 

 the young plants, and the latter will be far more advanced and 

 stronger to stand better the severity of early frosts when winter 

 comes on, than if sown in autumn. 



Next, it is highly recommendable to sow the grass-seed mixture 

 not by itself, but along with another crop : Oats, Barley 

 Summer- and Winter- Rye etc., such in accordance with 

 the season when the sowing takes place. 



Our own experience has taught us, that a crop of oats suits 

 the purpose best; the oats should, however, not be sown too 

 thickly, but only just thick enough, not to cause the young grass- 

 plants to suffer or even die away for lack of either light, air or 

 feeding, which might easily happen, if the oats have gone up too 

 luxuriantly. 



Not only that by following this method the farmer will have 

 the first year a paying crop, but he will, furthermore, find a great 

 assistance in this crop to keep the weeds down, which in the 

 absence of an oats- crop, and in view of the fact that nearly all 

 grasses are rather slow in germinating and developping, will spring 

 up rapidly and cover the soil in a very short time, even preventing 

 the grasses from doing their work. 



It is the quickly developping plants of the first crop like oats, 

 etc. which, though they cannot take away that evil entirely, will 

 nevertheless reduce it to a minimum. 



