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Where all these seeds are being offered at almost equal prices, 

 or with a slight difference only, we would advise every seedsman 

 and farmer to procure the best seed he can get as intimated above. 



As a rule Lucerne is grown with or without a fore-crop as 

 a separate field, which is usually sufficiently covered by these 

 plants alone, not to require any admixture. Yet it may just 

 as well and to advantage be sown in connection with grasses. 

 In this case we would advise, if for short lay, Ryegrasses, 

 perennial and Italian, Dactylis glomerata (Orchard-grass), 

 Avena elatior (Tall Oat-grass) and Timothy, if for permanent 

 pasture, Alopecurus pratensis (Meadow Foxtail), Festuca 

 elatior (Tall Fescue), Festuca pratensis (Meadow Fescue), 

 Cynosurus cristatus (Crested Dogstail), Anthoxanthum 

 odoratum (Sweet-scented Vernal, true), Avena flavescens 

 ( Yellow Oat-grass, true) and Poa pratensis and t r i v i a 1 i s 

 (Smooth- and Rough-stalked Meadow-grass) might furthermore be 

 added to the previously mentioned varieties. 



The five varieties named first might likewise be applied in cases 

 where after 2 or 3 years' lay a field of Lucerne should for reasons 

 not known show too many bare spots to have same eliminated. 



Oriiithopus sativiis (Serradella). The main object of this plant 

 is decidedly that of serving as a green manure to be ploughed 

 under. It thrives on lighter sandy soils, and though it does not 

 shoot up high, it covers the field very thickly indeed. If sown by 

 itself without an upper crop the first cut might be used as green 

 fodder which, though it is no plant of great nutritive value, is 

 eaten with no objection by either cattle or horses. Or that first 

 cut might be dried to hay which is a fairly good fodder too. After 

 that and when the plants have grown up sufficiently again the 

 field might be ploughed under. 



If sown in an Oats- or Summer-rye crop, the field might be grazed 

 after the Oats or Rye are off, or ploughed under after a while. 



It is not a plant destined for a good heavy class of soil, where 

 several others would decidedly do better and yield greater benefits. 



Serradella is never sown with grasses; its only connection 

 with these being that of serving as a green manure precedent to 

 the laying down of a pasture-land. 



Spergiila arvensis and maxima (Ordinary and Giant-Spur ry). 

 Two capital things as green fodder, especially for dairy cattle at 

 a time when young green fodder is becoming somewhat scarce, 



