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with the rye, and generally with no little advantage. 

 From one to two pounds of rape seed should be sown 

 per acre, and, in some instances, a larger quantity. 

 The seed may be sown, first, by adding it to the rye 

 in the drill grain box at short intervals and mixing 

 it with the rye while the latter is being sown ; second, 

 by the grass-seed-sowing attachment to the grain 

 drill, when it has one — the rape seed should fall 

 before rather than after the grain tubes, that a cov- 

 ering may thus be provided for the seed; third, by 

 some other form of seeder, or by hand, after the rye 

 has been sown. One stroke of the harrow should 

 then be given to cover the rape seed. Rape sown 

 with rye does not grow so vigorously as when it is 

 the sole occupant of the ground, but if sown five or 

 six weeks before the pasturing begins it will usually 

 add much to the value of a rye pasture, and more 

 especially when it is to be eaten down by sheep. 

 But the rape will not live through the winter, as the 

 rye does, except in mild latitudes. 



4. The few trials that have been made in grow- 

 ing rye and crimson clover together have not proved 

 altogether satisfactory. Although these plants are 

 frequently sown at the same season, one is liable to 

 be weakened by the growth of the other. In locali- 

 ties quite favorable to the growth of crimson clover, 

 as, for instance, the state of Delaware, the clover 

 unduly shades the rye, and in places where the oppo- 

 site conditions prevail, the rye may unduly crowd 

 the clover. But when both are kept grazed off, the 

 author fails to see why these should not be grown 

 with much advantage together in providing pasture, 

 at least under some conditions. 



5. Rye may be pastured for a time in the spring 



