How to Estimate Seed Mixtures for Pastures and Hay. 799 
give in their catalogues the number of germinating plants in a pound 
of the seeds they supply. In making the selection, the kinds of 
seeds that it is proposed to introduce into the field must be first 
determined by the farmer. Then the quantities can be easily taken 
out. 
One remarkable fact in this table is that an acre of land can 
have 10,000,000 plants of timothy placed on it at a cost of 3s. 4c?. 
Timothy is one of the grasses most highly valued in America, and is 
generally used there with clover for hay as we use rye-grass. The 
feeding quality of the hay is high. Large importations of this hay 
were brought from Canada a year ago to make up for the great 
deficiency of our crop of 1893 ; in the face of some prejudice it 
satisfactorily supplied our need. Timothy is a truly perennial grass, 
with a considerable amount of foliage. Making timothy, then, the 
basis, and adding clovers and grasses in smaller quantities, it is clear 
that a mixture of the best quality of seeds, and the most valuable 
varieties, can be obtained at comparatively small prices. In the 
tables appended three such mixtures are given, not as specimens of 
what, without regard to price, one would like to use, but as cheap 
mixtures composed of the best quality of good grasses. In contrast 
with the first mixture it may be pointed out that if rye-grass were 
substituted for timothy the cost of the 10,000,000 seeds of rye-grass 
and clovers would be 14s. 3 d. 
Table IV . — Specimen 
Mixtures 
with Timothy as the Basis. 
N umber of seeds 
s. d. 
A. 
Timothy . 
. o.:oo,coo 
2 3 
Alsike 
. 1,650,000 
2 6 
White clover . 
. 
. 1,650,000 
2 11 
10,000,000 
7 8 
B. 
Timothy . 
. 5,000,000 
1 8 
Meadow-grass 
. 1,000,000 
9 
Cocksfoot 
700,000 
1 5 
Alsike 
. 1,660,000 
2 6 
White clover . 
. 1,650,000 
2 11 
10,000,000 
9 3 
C. 
Timothy . 
. 4,000,000 
1 4 
Meadow-grass 
. 1,200,000 
1 0 
Cocksfoot 
. 1,000,000 
2 0 
Foxtail . 
600,000 
1 7 
Alsike 
. 1,650,0(0 
2 6 
White clover . 
. 1,650,000 
2 11 
10,000,000 
11 4 
William Carrutiiers. 
44 Central Hill, Norwood, S.E. 
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