TIMOTHY 



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seed together in late summer or early fall (usually late 

 in August) without a nurse crop. This gives an 

 abundant harvest of hay the next year. On soils 

 where there has been great difficulty in securing a 

 catch of clover by the old method in recent years this 

 method gives excellent results. How far west this 

 practice would be successful the writer does not know, 

 but it is certainly worth trying in Ohio and Indiana. 

 Where this method prevails redtop and alsike are 

 quite generally added to the mixture. The amount of 

 alsike-seed used in such mixtures is usually only one 

 or two pounds. The amount of redtop varies with 

 different farmers, from a couple of pounds to half a 

 bushel of seed in the chaff. These two grasses are 

 quite generally used all over the East. The most suc- 

 cessful farmer the writer has ever known uses the 

 above method of seeding grass, his mixture contain- 

 ing all four of the grasses mentioned. He sows the 

 last week in August, and cuts three times the next 

 year. 



The third method, sometimes met with in Xew 

 England, is to sow all the grass-seed in the spring, 

 either with or without grain. In this case no crop of 

 hay is secured till the next year. It is not a plan to 

 be recommended for general use where either of the 

 others is feasible. 



South of the timothy region proper early fall sow- 

 ing, without a nurse crop, is by all means the best. 

 In this section it is also well to add some other peren- 

 nial grass, such as orchard-grass, meadow-fescue, or 

 tall meadow oat-grass. These are better adapted to 

 the region than timothy, and, except on the very best 



