APRIL.] SEPARATED GRASS-SEEDS. '2 j 1 



SOWING GRASS-SEEDS. 



vlsmen arc apt to mix seeds of nearly the 

 same size, in order to have the fewer casts. This is 

 a very bad wav, and always to be guarded against. 

 Five pounds of any clover, Sec. cannot be divided 

 and sown at two casts ; but lolb. may, and ought, 

 and 'a larger quantity is better done at three ; but 

 for all small seed ', the Norfolk turnip-trough, which 



.v adapted to clover and ray-grass, is much the 



r way of delivering these seeds. Those of 

 grass, which are light, ought never to be sown in a 

 windv day ; for an equal delivery is a point of great 

 consequence. All grass-seeds should be covered at 

 one tining of a very light pair of harrows. Of all 

 other circumstances, sowing in the wet, so as to 

 have the least degree of poaching or stickiness, 

 should be avoided. 



SEPARATED GRASS-SEEDS. 



I cannot advise a young fanner to pay much at- 

 tention to this objecl, unless he proceeds upon very 

 sure grounds, by forming a contract for the sale of 

 the sefcds at a good price, before he commences his 

 operations. I have mystlf gone largely into it, 

 ?md have found it a cheaper method of procuring 



veds, to have them gathered by women and 

 children, by hand, than to raise them myself, under 

 the determination to have them perfectly clean 

 from all mixture. However, as in certain situa- 



, and under certain circumstances, it may be- 

 come an object of attention, something should be 

 said of it here. 



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