SEEDING GRASSES. 
Usually alfalfa grows best to be alone. There is, 
strictly speaking, no other plant that matches it very 
well to be sown with it. Nothing else matures at 
just the same time or makes so many cuttings as 
alfalfa. However, there are places where it is well 
to mix other seeds with it. 
Red Clover and Alfalfa—trIn some parts of the 
eastern states red clover is sown with alfalfa, about 
5 Ibs. of red clover to 15 lbs. of alfalfa per acre. 
The result is said to be very good. Where the red 
clover is sown there are heavy crops of the mixture 
for one year or more after seeding, then when the 
clover has died out the alfalfa is said to grow with 
more vigor than on adjoining plots where it was 
sown alone. I have seen this mixture in use in 
France and with it some grasses—I think rye grass, 
orchard grass and perhaps timothy. Certainly the 
wealth of herbage yielded by this mixed meadow in 
France was astounding. It was not intended to re- 
main long, being in a scheme of comparatively short 
rotation. 
It has already been mentioned that alfalfa ought 
at all times to be added to red clover when sown on 
land that may be suspected of having quality enough 
to permit its growth 
Timothy in Alfalfa.—tn some instances when al- 
falfa is meant for horse feed it is not a bad plan to 
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