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they were ploughed and crossed with the disk 
harrow. From then until September 1, these 
fields were harrowed each week in half lap, so 
that by the time we were ready to seed them 
they were in excellent condition and free from 
weeds. About September 1 they were sown to 
timothy and red top, fifteen pounds each to the 
acre, top-dressed with five hundred pounds of 
fertilizer, harrowed once more, rolled, and left 
until spring, when another dose of fertilizer was 
used. 
I wished to establish twenty acres of timothy 
and as much alfalfa, to furnish the hay supply 
for the farm. With one hundred tons of alfalfa 
and sixty of timothy, which I could reasonably 
expect, I could get on splendidly. 
From the first I have practised feeding my hay 
crop for immediate returns. The land receives 
five hundred pounds of fertilizer per acre when 
it is sown, a like amount again in the spring, 
and, as soon as a crop is cut, three hundred 
pounds an acre more. This usually gives a 
second crop of timothy about September 1, 
if the season is at all favorable. The alfalfa is 
cut at least three times, and for each cutting it 
receives three hundred pounds of plant food per 
acre. In the course of a year I spend from $10 
to $12 an acre for my grassland. Inreturn I get 
from each acre of timothy, in two cuttings, 
about three and a half tons; worth, at an aver- 
age selling price, $12 a ton. The alfalfa yields 
