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GRASSES and CLOVERS for LEYS and 
alternate husbandry. 
For the ordinary purposes of a one, two, or three years’ ley, where it is definitely intended to break 
up the land again at the end of a specified time, we continue to supply our mixtures which have stood 
the test for so many years. Read the notes on the Carter System of Turf Production, pages 54 
and 55 . 
The seeds employed are those of such varieties as give the greatest weight of hay and make the 
heaviest pasture in the shortest possible time. The selection is also influenced by the purpose for which 
the layer is required ; whether for hay, for cattle or sheep pasture, or for a combination of these. The 
formation upon which the soil rests must also be taken into account. 
The time for sowing should be as soon as the corn has taken a good hold of the ground. If the 
barley drilling has been neatly finished, no preparation will be needed before sowing the seeds, which 
will be best distributed by the hand-barrow or broad-cast horse machine, and harrowed in with the light 
seed-harrows or chain-web, finishing off with the roller. Where the corn is hoed, the seeds are sometimes 
worked in during this operation. 
When clovers and grasses are sown together, a good dressing of farmyard dung in the autumn will 
be of great service, and this may be with advantage supplemented with a special manure in the spring. 
Where clovers are sown alone the dung may be applied in autumn and the special clover manure in 
the spring. 
About the middle of March, or in early spring, fields of young clover should be well picked of large 
stones and then rolled. Clover, being such a valuable plant, has often been grown too frequently upon 
the same land,' which consequently becomes “ clover-sick.” This may be avoided to a great extent by 
adopting the six-course instead of the four-course rotation, or by taking a crop of beans instead of clover 
every alternate year in the four-course rotation. 
Trefoil {Medkago lupulina) is, in some districts, sown by itself at the rate of about 18 lbs. to 
20 lbs. per acre, and is found to be very valuable for producing early sheep-feed. It is especially useful 
where fat lambs are fed for early sales. 
The following is one of several pleasing letters we have received from customers : 
Churcli of England Home for Waifs and Strays, 
Hedgerley Court Farm. 
‘‘We are ju,t cutting our clover hay, the seed of which you supplied. I thought you would be interested to know that 
the bents are over 4J feet high, whilst the clover is a splendid crop; there is not such a crop for miles around.”— A. C. S., 
funCi 1910 . 
Ravnes Park, London, S.W.— 1912 
