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nurse crop ; but it far too frequently happens that when the 

 nurse crop is removed (which nuist usually be late in June 

 or during the month of July) the ex])osure of the young- 

 grass to the hot sun seriously weakens if it does not destroy 

 a considerable proportion of it. At the season of the year 

 when the nurse crop is removed we have our hottest weather, 

 and not infrequently at the same time a marked deficiency 

 of rainfall. With hot and persistently dry weather follow- 

 ing the removal of the nurse crop damage to the young- 

 grass is certain to be serious on all except the naturally 

 moist and the richer soils. For the reasons which have 

 been indicated, the writer regards this method of seeding as 

 one of the least desirable. 



Late Slimmer or Fall Seed in g. 

 Grass which is sown in suitably prepared soil during the 

 latter part of sunnner without a nurse crop seldom fails to 

 do well, and where the system of rotation makes it possible 

 to have the land clear at the right time, or in cases where 

 mowings are to be broken up and immediately reseeded, 

 this seems to the writer to be the best time. In many cases 

 seeding is delayed until the middle of September or later, 

 but if this be the case the clover seed is usually left out to 

 be sown the following spring. With suitable weather in 

 spring clover often makes a good start if sown in this 

 way, but a full crop cannot of course be expected the same 

 season. Better results are obtained if the land can be seeded 

 sufficiently early to make it safe to include the clover with 

 the grass seeds. The reseeding of the mowing in the ex- 

 periment station, which has been several times referred 

 to, was eminently successful. The clover passed through 

 the winter perfectly, and constituted a large pro})orliim of 

 the crop of hay ]:>roduced. The month of August is, in the 

 writer's opinion, the best month for seeding to mixed grass 

 and clover; and the most satisfactory results are likely to 

 be obtained if the seed can be got in not later than about 

 the middle of that month. 



