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High-grade sulphate of potash is one of the most £^ ts for 

 satisfactory of the commercial potash salts and its use - 

 does not tend to deplete the soil of its lime as does the 

 use of muriate of potash. The phosphoric acid and 

 potash should be applied to the soil broadcast to the 

 depth of at least three inches from one to two weeks 

 before sowing the seed. Hard-wood ashes are excellent 

 when not adulterated, as a source of potash and lime. 



Seeding. 



Twenty quarts per acre of the best recleaned 

 timothy seed obtainable is the right quantity to sow 

 per acre, and this should be sown between August 15th 

 and September 15th, the time that timothy naturally 

 reseeds itself. It can best be sown with a wheelbarrow, 

 broadcast grass seeder, sowing ten quarts each way of 

 the field for most even distribution, after which the 

 seed should be dragged into the soil about one inch 

 deep, by going over the field once or twice with a slant- 

 tooth drag or a weeder with sufficient weight attached 

 to obtain the desired result. 



Finish the operation by going over the field with a 

 roller, to roll down the loose stones on the surface and to 

 compact the surface soil, thus bringing the moisture to 

 the surface so that the seed will all germinate at once 

 and come up evenly over the entire field. 



Nitrate Application. 



So far we have insured a good, clean, thick stand of 

 healthy timothy plants, and we have supplied them 

 liberally with the mineral plant foods that are liable to 

 be deficient in the soil, but we have made no provision 

 for the plants having an abundant supply of available 

 Nitrogen the next spring when they are making their 

 most rapid growth, and their need is greatest. At that 

 time there is always a scant supply of soluble Nitrogen 

 in the surface soil, owing to the fact that when the excess 

 moisture settles down into the lower levels of the soil 

 it carries Nitrogen in solution with it, and the stores of 

 humus Nitrogen are not rendered soluble, except in 

 very slight amounts, until the soil warms up to a 



