44 



dentally scattered helps to tliieken tlie mowing by producing 

 plants which replace others as they die out. The best time 

 for sowing such seed is either late summer or very early 

 spring. The quantity of seed sown should be varied ac- 

 cording as conditions seem to require. In case the stand 

 of plants in a mowing is especially thin, and it is desired 

 to reinforce it, it may be wise to go over the mowing either 

 with a harrow or a weighted weeder after sowing the seed. 



The Common Weeds of our Mowings. 



A considerable proportion of the mowings of the State 

 are infested with weeds of different kinds. Among the most 

 connnon and troublesome are the common white and the 

 yellow daisy, wild carrot, sorrel, dock, buttercups, the 

 common plantain, dandelions, milkweed, ragged robin and 

 horsetail. The methods which will prove most effective in 

 eradicating these weeds or keeping them in subjection must 

 be quite different in details for the different weeds; but in 

 general it may be said that, if the soil is kept sweet by suf- 

 ficient use of lime, and well enriched, the conditions will be 

 made so favorable for the growth of the better grasses and 

 the clovers that the weeds will have relatively little chance. 



The grasses and the clovers, in the struggle for existence 

 which is always going on in the meadows, will prove victo- 

 rious. There are localities, however, where certain weeds 

 have gained such a foothold that special measures of eradi- 

 cating them are called for. There is one general measure 

 which may be expected to prove helpful in the case of al- 

 most any of them, which must be first considered. This is 

 reseeding. 



Reseeding Mowings. 

 The question is often asked, when mowings become highly 

 infested with different weeds, how these weeds can be best 

 subdued or eradicated. Reseeding in almost all such in- 

 stances, if carried out under the right conditions, is likely to 

 prove helpful. The question will at once arise whether it is 

 better to plow and cultivate for one or more years and then 

 reseed, or to plow or otherwise break up the ground and im- 



