4 GRASS GROWING FOR PROFIT 
should be done before September, and the above- 
mentioned ration should be used as a top-dressing 
the following spring, as soon as the grass begins to 
show growth. 
If all the conditions are favorable, from three or 
five tons of clean barn-cured hay, free from weeds, 
may reasonably be expected. When grass crops are 
heavy and run as high as four and one-half or more 
tons per acre field-cured, it is safe to allow 20 per 
Clearing Land for Seeding. 
cent. shrinkage in weight for seasoning and drying 
down to a barn-cured basis. Nitrate of Soda, the 
chief constituent of the prescribed ration, pushes the 
grass early and enables it to get ahead of all weeds, 
and the crop then feeds profitably and fully on the 
other manurial constituents present in the fertilizer 
mentioned in the formula and present in the soil. 
