78 GRASSES AND HOW TO GROW THEM. 



more plants are wanted in tlie early autnmn, and cover- 

 ing with the harrow, even at the risk of sacrificing some 

 of the plants already growing. In others the seed is 

 sown in the early spring without harrowing and in yet 

 others it is sown later in the spring and harrowed. 

 Whether the attempt to thus complete the stand of the 

 plants all over the field will be preferable to ploughing 

 the land again and re-seeding it, will depend chiefly 

 upon the proportion of the entire area on which a suffi- 

 cient stand has been secured. 



In pastures, timothy as other grasses is sometimes 

 renewed by adding more seed. This may be done in 

 the same way as meadows are renewed, as described 

 in the preceding paragraph, but in some instances the 

 ground is disked before adding the seed. In yet others 

 winter or spring rye is added on the disked parts to pro- 

 vide pasture speedily. And yet again timothy is sown 

 but not with much frequency and chiefly with the seed 

 of other pasture plants on pastures that have been disked 

 for the purpose of improving them. 



