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primarily a forage plant, will, after being well es- 

 tablished, furnish excellent pasturage, if treated 

 right. Professor Spillman also believes that while 

 the seeding of mixtures such as are used in the old 

 country have not been very popular in the United 

 States, the practice ought not to be abandoned 

 until a thorough tryout is given. Possibly some 

 successful mixture will be found. If it is, it will 

 mean a whole lot to the live stock industry of the 

 country. 



The seeding of timothy and clover together seems 

 to be one of the popular forms of starting a pas- 

 ture in this country, to which other grasses ought 

 to be added, particularly blue grass. In seeding 

 grasses it must be remembered that, other things 

 being equal, rich land requires more seed than poor 

 land and wet land more than dry. A well-prepared 

 seedbed requires less seed than one poorly pre- 

 pared. A single pound of timothy seed to the acre, 

 if every seed produced a thrifty plant, would pro- 

 duce 27 pounds on every square foot. 



Mrs. Meredith, on her Indiana farm, devoted to 

 the raising of pure-bred Shorthorns, is a very firm 

 believer in a permanent pasture. She contends 

 that it not only enables her to keep more live stock 

 but it gives her a larger proportion of feed than 

 most people think can be secured from pasture 

 land. Further than this, the fact that farm animals 

 become accustomed to grazing in certain fields and 

 get used to a permanent pasture must be given con- 

 sideration. 



While permanent pastures are highly desirable, 

 temporary pastures often are a great help. These 

 may be made in the North in summer by sowing 

 winter cereals in the spring. A true winter cereal, 

 if seeded in the spring, will not head out that year. 



