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but on certain soils of the south it will soon fail under 

 close grazing even when moisture is sufficiently preva- 

 lent. Ordinarily the results will prove much more sat- 

 isfactory when timothy forms but one factor of the pas- 

 ture, although in providing pasture for horses it has 

 found some favor in certain localities though sown 

 alone. For pasture as also for hay it is more com- 

 monly sown with medium red clover than with any 

 other variety of clover or grass, since, when thus grown, 

 while the clover lives the grazing can be continued 

 through nearly all the year. But when it is desired tc 

 obtain pasture speedily through the aid of timothy, it 

 may be done in certain areas by sowing the seed in the 

 autumn along, with winter rye. The rye is then pas- 

 tured in the spring, and when the rye pasture has failed 

 the timothy continues to provide pasture more or less 

 through the summer. 



In pasturing timothy the grazing should begin reason- 

 ably early in the spring, but very close pasturing at that 

 season will materially lessen the yield if a dry season 

 should follow. On the other hand if the pasture is 

 under stocked it will be eaten closely in certain por- 

 tions and in other portions will form heads. When this 

 occurs the field mower should be run over the pasture 

 before the seed matures. 



Usually close grazing in the autumn will materially 

 lessen production the following season, whether the 

 plants are devoted to furnishing pasture or hay. Be- 

 cause of. this many growers of timothy hay for mar- 

 ket do not graze the meadows in the autumn. The 

 mulch provided by the aftermath furnishes excellent 



