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variety and the object sought. The variety sown would 

 also be adapted to the needs of the locality. When the 

 crop is not cultivated, the harrow should be used on 

 it with more or less freedom, in the early stages of 

 growth. What has been said about the sowing of cow 

 peas "will equally apply to soy beans, grown for hay. 

 Millets can only be sown upon the better class of soils. 

 Their relative importance in furnishing hay in this 

 group is not so high as in some other groups, owing in 

 a large measure to soil conditions. Sorghum is best 

 sown just at the close of the corn planting season on 

 well prepared and fertilized land. From 1 to 2 bushels 

 of seed are drilled in with the grain drill in order to 

 make the growth fine. The crop may be cut twice for 

 hay. The chief objection to it is that it is difficult to 

 cure for hay, nor is it relished so much by stock, as when 

 grown as fodder and fed when more mature. In sev- 

 eral of the southern states, however, it is much grown 

 for hay ; considerable crab grass is also grovm for hay 

 (seep. 262). 



For the Canadian Northwest. — For the states and 

 provinces included in this group, see p. 346, and for 

 grasses for temporary meadows, see p. 346. The best 

 grass for permanent meadows in this area generally is 

 Russian brome. JSText to it, especially in dry areas, is 

 western rye, and, in areas more moist, timothy. These 

 are best sown for permanent meadow in the late sum- 

 mer and on summer-fallowed land but may also be sown 

 in the spring or in the quite late autumn on clean land. 

 When sown early in the spring, it may be with a nurse 

 crop, thinly sown and cut for hay at the heading out 

 Grasses — 27. 



