iS iLLir^ors STATE dairymen's association 



For meadow seeding I would change the varieties in the combi- 

 nation, selecting those that mature at the same time. I would 

 recommend the cultivation and reseeding on old iiaeadow lots in the 

 months of August and September,to secure a good yield the following 

 season. I would us© a prime dressing of a prime comspost manure 

 while cultivating the soil, thereby thoroughly nsixing them to- 

 gether. Then sow the combination of grass seed and harrow lightly 

 with a smoothing harrow. I ara now referriiig to upland meadows 

 Lowland meadow I cultivate soon as the grass is mown, even in the 

 month of July, but do not sow any grass seed until about the 20th of 

 August, Sow seed until the ISth of October. Continue the work of 

 cultivation until there is a low temperature, so that the seed will not. 

 germinate ; then resume the sowing of the grass seed and let it freeze 

 with the soil and grow in the following spring. 



Pasture lots on upland I cultivate soon as the frost is out of the 

 ground in the spring of the year ; reseed and hold it as a reserve lot 

 until about the 10th of June, when it will be in a splendid condition 

 to use, producing feed the balance of the season without injury to 

 the young seeding. Lowland pasture lots I cultivate and seed in the 

 fall of the year, mowing the first two crops of hay ; thus it will 

 become a very strong sod, so the feeding of stock will not injure it. 

 In relation to the quantity of grass seed sown per acre, that will 

 depend upon the. condition of the soil, also the variety. English au- 

 thority says that when a lot of land is well seeded, each square foot 

 of land produces one thousand one hundred healthy grass plants. I 

 am using thirty-six to forty quarts of mixed seed per acre, with good 

 results. American seeding will average about one hundred and 

 seventy-five plants per square foot. I observe that when I use a 

 heavy seeding I am not annoyed with a strong growth of obnoxious 

 weeds, and also will have an improved sod on the surface of the land 

 which has been cultivated. 



. I wdll now state that all varieties do not mature at the same 

 time, as perchance there are some persons present that would claim 

 the grasses were very much crowded while they were growing. The 

 combination is formed by mixing the earlier and later varieties 

 together, which will cause a steady growth of grass through the en- 

 tire season, thus afibrding a generous supply of feed for the use of all 

 classes of stock. 



I have often been asked this question : " What length of time 

 will those lands remain as you leave them, when they are culti- 



