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seed together in late summer or early fall (usually late 
in August) without a nurse crop. This gives an 
abundant harvest of hay the next year. On soils 
where there has been great difficulty in securing a 
catch of clover by the old method in recent years this 
method gives excellent results. How far west this 
practice would be successful the writer does not know, 
but it is certainly worth trying in Ohio and Indiana. 
Where this method prevails redtop and alsike are 
quite generally added to the mixture. The amount of 
alsike-seed used in such mixtures is usually only one 
or two pounds. The amount of redtop varies with 
different farmers, from a couple of pounds to half a 
bushel of seed in the chaff. These two grasses are 
quite generally used all over the East. The most suc- 
cessful farmer the writer has ever known uses the 
above method of seeding grass, his mixture contain- 
ing all four of the grasses mentioned. He sows the 
last week in August, and cuts three times the next 
year. : 
The third method, sometimes met with in New 
England, is to sow all the grass-seed in the spring, 
either with or without grain. In this case no crop of 
hay is secured till the next year. It is not a plan to 
be recommended for general use where either of the 
others is feasible. 
South of the timothy region proper early fall sow- 
ing, without a nurse crop, is by all means the best. 
In this section it is also well to add some other peren- 
nial grass, such as orchard-grass, meadow-fescue, or 
tall meadow oat-grass. These are better adapted to 
the region than timothy, and, except on the very best 
