198 FORAGE CROPS 
preparation. When the land is naturally good and 
well prepared, the quantity of seed may be rela- 
tively large; but if it is poor and in bad con- 
dition, a large quantity of seed will not encour- 
age a proportionately heavy growth, as a great 
number of young plants will perish because of the 
lack of a proper medium for their growth and 
nourishment. The following seed mixture has been 
used with very great success, and as a general 
grass and clover mixture for dairy farms can be 
strongly recommended, because it is one for which 
the seed can be readily obtained, is not expensive, 
and possesses a sufficient number of distinct plants 
to permit of complete occupation of the land: 
Timothy ................ 8 pounds 
Red Glover. <5. eos a we a a 4 pounds 
PIS UIC Gs © 5 3ay-icsh nesev'eh Nae sab eae Sayan Pa? a SO EIS 2 pounds 
Cleaned red-top............. 2 pounds 
This mixture should be sown at the rate of 
twenty to thirty pounds per acre,—not less than 
twenty pounds on medium soil, and as much as 
twenty-four to thirty pounds or even more on very 
good soil. If seeded in the middle states any time 
from the middle of August to not later than Sep- 
tember 20, this mixture of grasses and clovers will 
make sufficient growth in fall to cover the ground 
completely, and prevent the starting of weeds, and 
under good climatic conditions will successfully 
survive the winter. 
