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4. Unlike other grasses, timothy will not admit of pasturage. 

 The nipping of stock will destroy the bulbs. 



5. NEVER CUT THE SWARD BELOW THE FIEST JOINT. 



6. Be sure to have the ground well pulverized. 



It is necessary to impress one idea that has already been stated. 

 Do not allow the timothy to stand longer than the time that the 

 yellow spot appears near the first joint, as it will from that time 

 ripen very rapidly, and be worthless. General Harding, before the 

 Farmers' Club, called attention to the fact, that the greatest enemy 

 of timothy is blue-grass. If stock is allowed to pass from a blue- 

 grass pasture at will, to a meadow of timothy, they will quickly 

 sow the meadow in blue-grass, and the latter will, in a short time 

 supersede the former. In the meeting above alluded to, timothy 

 being the subject of discussion, Gen. Harding being called on for 

 his views, said " he had had considerable experience with timothy. 

 He regarded timothy the most valuable of all the grasses for hay, 

 and more especially for hay that must be handled or shipped or 

 baled. He had tried several varieties. Before the introduction of 

 blue-grass our timothy meadows lasted almost without limit, and 

 produced year after year for twenty or thirty years. But since we 

 have been growing blue- grass more extensively, it gets into our 

 timothy meadows and in a few years will root it out ; so now, in 

 buying my timothy seed, I look more carefully for blue-grass seed 

 than for the seed of any noxious weeds. I would rather sow dock 

 I would rather sow anything in my timothy than blue-grass. 

 Still I value blue-grass in its place as the first of grasses, yet it 

 causes more trouble in our meadows than anything else. Again, 

 our seasons have become dryer, and there is much greater difficulty 

 in getting a stand of timothy than formerly. "When I commenced 

 sowing meadows, I had no trouble in getting a stand of timothy, 

 whether I sowed the seed in the fall or in the spring, whether I 

 sowed in the fall with wheat or barley, or in the spring with my 

 oats. For many years I never failed. Now I sow in the fall, and 

 the timothy is frequently winter-killed ; I sow in the spring, and it 

 is killed by the long droughts of summer. But these difficulties 

 should not deter us; we should continue to sow, and persevere until 

 we get a stand. Hence if I sow in the fall and my timothy is 

 killed, I sow in the spring; if it is then killed, I sow again and 



