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Special attention should be given to getting seed that is as free 

 of chaff as possible and that germinates well. The seed should 

 weigh at least twenty- four pounds per bushel and it should ger- 

 minate at least sixty percent. Most of the difficulty that has been 

 encountered in seeding bluegrass has been due to the fact that the 

 greater part of the bluegrass seed on the market is of low vi- 

 tality. 



Where bluegrass is used a seeding of six pounds of timothy, 

 four pounds of red clover, two pounds of alsike clover and six 

 to ten pounds of good bluegrass seed should be sown. The 

 grasses can be sown in the fall with wheat and the clovers in the 

 spring or all may be sown in the spring with oats or spring bar- 

 ley. If white clover is desired quickly, two pounds of this should 

 be added to the mixture. The cost of this grass and clover seed 

 will be around $3.00 per acre if the maximum quantity of blue- 

 grass is used, and if the seeds are of good quality. 



Orchard Grass. 



In seeding down dry rocky lands, especially in South Mis- 

 souri, orchard grass is one of the hardiest grasses to use. A 

 mixture of six to eight pounds timothy, four pounds red or mam- 

 moth clover, one pound alsike clover, one pound white clover 

 and eight to ten pounds of orchard grass will give a good pas- 

 ture. The clover and timothy will give pasturage the first two 

 or three years until the orchard grass gets started. These should 

 be harrowed in early in the spring with a small heavy harrow, 

 without attempting to plow the land. A bushel of oats per acre 

 harrowed in at the same time will give some pasture the first 

 spring. On the better places of this dry, rocky land some blue- 

 grass seed may be added, the Canadian being more hardy than 

 the Kentucky bluegrass. 



Fertilizers. 



The use of phosphates such as finely ground beef bone meal 

 applied with the nurse crop on all lands that are rather low in 

 fertility, and especially where clover has begun to fail, will help 



