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the sowing should take place as early in the fall as the 

 weather will permit, or, indeed, the latter part of summer, 

 if there is a proper degree of moisture in the soil. Some 

 farmers sow a limited amount of seed daily, and over the 

 same surface sprinkle shelled corn, then turn on their hogs. 

 They root in search of the corn, and thus plant the seed, 

 doing the work of plow and harrow. This, to say the least, 

 is a slovenly plan, and though possibly securing a good 

 stand, the ground is so roughened it can never make a beau* 

 tiful pasture. 



If the land is loose as some soils are, it will answer a very 

 good purpose to scratch up the surface well with a sharp 

 toothed harrow, and this is especially the case where the 

 roots of undergrowth exist to a great extent. 



AFTER TREATMENT. 



Of one fact there cannot be a doubt, and in this lies the 

 whole secret of having remunerative pastures of blue grass, 

 and that is, do not pasture it to death. It is true, it will 

 stand almost unlimited grazing, but there is a point beyond 

 which it will cease to be profitable, and that limit should 

 never be passed. The better plan is to have the lots divided, 

 and allow the stock on one until it is cropped down, and 

 then, when no longer any pickings can be taken from it, do 

 not allow the stock to continue to tread it, simply to have 

 them on a grass lot. It will not only do the stock no good, 

 but, by constant tramping, the grass is unable to throw up 

 any foliage, and in time it will die, for the roots must draw 

 some nourishment from the atmosphere, or they will perish. 

 Allow the grass to recuperate by changing the stock from 

 one pasture to another, and never over stock it. Grass that 

 will keep ten oxen in growing order will fatten five oxen 

 quickly. Stock of all kinds are constant feeders, and there 

 should always be forage enough to enable them to get plenty 

 to eat without the labor of hunting for it. 



There is much variety of opinion on the amount of stock 



