SEEDING GRASSES. 



Usually alfalfa grows best to be alone. There is, 

 strictly speaking, no other plant that matches it very 

 well to be sown with it. Nothing else matures at 

 just the same time or makes so many cuttings as 

 alfalfa. However, there are places where it is well 

 to mix other seeds with it. 



Red Clover and Alfalfa. In some parts of the 

 eastern states red clover is sown with alfalfa, about 

 5 Ibs. of red clover to 15 Ibs. of alfalfa per acre. 

 The result is said to be very good. Where the red 

 clover is sown there are heavy crops of the mixture 

 for one year or more after seeding, then when the 

 clover has died out the alfalfa is said to grow with 

 more vigor than on adjoining plots where it was 

 sown alone. I have seen this mixture in use in 

 France and with it some grasses I think rye grass, 

 orchard grass and perhaps timothy. Certainly the 

 wealth of herbage yielded by this mixed meadow in 

 France was astounding. It was not intended to re- 

 main long, being in a scheme of comparatively short 

 rotation. 



It has already been mentioned that alfalfa ought 

 at all times to be added to red clover when sown on 

 land that may be suspected of having quality enough 

 to permit its growth 



Timothy in Alfalfa. In some instances when al- 

 falfa is meant for horse feed it is not a bad plan to 



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