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a drill. Unhulled seed is usually broadcasted, since it is necessary to 

 sow it before the ground is in condition to be worked. Unless the 

 hulls have been rubbed smooth, some difficulty may be experienced 

 in seeding it evenly with a drill. 



When sweet clover is to be sown with spring-seeded grain or when 

 it is to be sown without a nurse crop it may be drilled in or sown 

 broadcast and covered with a harrow. Better stands are generally 

 obtained with a smaller quantity of seed when it is sown with the 

 drill than when it is broadcasted on honeycombed ground. When 

 the seed is sown at the time the grain is planted, the grass-seeder 

 attachment of the drill commonly is used. In some sections the end- 

 gate seeder is used almost entirely. When the seed is sown by 

 either of these methods it may be seeded alone or mixed with the 

 grain. When only the clover seed is sown with a drill, the alfalfa 

 and clover seed drills are to be preferred. 



Sweet-clover seed may be mixed with some inert substance of ap- 

 proximately the same size and weight and sown with an ordinary 

 grain drill. Finely cracked corn, cracked wheat, or coarse bran 

 often are used for this purpose. When one portion of sweet clover is 

 mixed w r ith two portions of a filler and the drill is set to sow one- 

 half bushel of wheat, it will usually sow from 15 to 20 pounds of 

 sweet clover to the acre. As this quantity will vary with the differ- 

 ent types of drills, it is necessary to test each drill, so that the seed 

 may be mixed with the filler in such proportions that the desired 

 quantity will be sown. The drill may be tested by blocking it up, 

 so that the geared wheel is off the ground, and this wheel may be 

 turned a sufficient number of times to equal a definite portion of an 

 acre. The seed that runs through can then be weighed and the rate 

 per acre determined. The rate may be determined more accuratety 

 by plugging up the grain tubes or by tying a small sack on each tube 

 and pulling the drill for a specific distance over the field to be sown. 

 The jar of the drill will cause it to drop more seed than when it is 

 blocked up and run by hand. 



It is often desired to seed sweet clover on land which can not be 

 cultivated. When sown on such land it is recommended that un- 

 hulled seed or seed that contains a large percentage of hard seed be 

 used and that it be broadcasted during the winter. The subsequent 

 freezing and thawing will cover many of the seeds and cause them 

 to germinate. It is a good plan to scatter in deep gulleys mature 

 plants that have not shattered ail their seed. The branches of these 

 plants will help to hold the seed in place until it germinates and the 

 young plants become established. 



Seed may be scattered on native prairie ground in the late winter, 

 but unless it is trampled into the ground by live stock disappointing 



