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free  the  potash  in  your  soil,  stir 
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by  converting  inert  nitrogen  into 
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acidity. 
is  the  form  which  will  trive  best  re¬ 
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Wo  can  prove  it  by  those  who 
have  used  our  product  for  years. 
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of  all  our  claims. 
For  those  who  prefer  to  use  lime¬ 
stone,  we  furnish 
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Which  is  our  “high  calcium"  rock 
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An  Experiment  at  Transplanting  Timothy 
Many  of  Tuv  K.  N.-Y.  readers  know 
how.  by  selection  from  individual  plants, 
superior  strains  of  Timothy  were  estab¬ 
lished  by  the  Department  of  riant.  Breed¬ 
ing  at  Cornell  University.  In  September, 
1913,  the  writer  was  given  about  two 
ounces  of  seed  from  one  of  these  selec¬ 
tions.  Having  seen  the  trial  plots  of  Tim¬ 
othy  growing  at  Cornell  I  was  impressed 
with  their  great  value  and  wished  to  make 
the  best  possible  use  of  this  seed.  The 
work  was  done  on  a  well-known  seed  farm 
near  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  and  it  was  the 
purpose  ultimately  to  he  able  to  grow, 
in  commercial  quantities,  Timothy  seed 
of  this  improved  strain  that  should  he  ab¬ 
solutely  pure.  To  accomplish  this  it  was 
decided  to  sow  the  seed  in  a  medium 
known  to  be  free  from  Timothy  seed  :  and 
(hen  to  transplant  the  seedlings  into  a 
soil  known  to  he  free  from  Timothy  roots. 
Judging  by  results  with  many  other  kinds 
of  plants.  I  believed  that  when  these  rows 
of  Timothy  because  well  established  they 
would  yield  more  seed  per  aero  than  if 
grown  in  a  meadow.  A  part  of  the  original 
plan  contemplated  getting  an  increased 
acreage  in  future  by  plant  division;  that 
is.  by  pulling  apart  the  clumps  of  Timothy 
when  they  should  have  grown  to  a  good 
size  and  transplanting  them  into  clean 
ground. 
A  frame  of  eight-inch  boards,  GxlG  feet, 
was  placed  on  a  piece  of  good  mellow 
ground.  The  soil  inside  the  frame  was 
carefully  worked  over  and  levelled.  To 
insure  freedom  from  the  accidental  intro¬ 
duction  of  any  other  grass,  by  root  or 
seed,  about  two  inches  of  clean  saud  from 
a  sandbank  was  spread  over  the  soil  and 
the  seed  was  sown  in  rows  in  this  sand. 
To  prevent  the  saud  from  drying  out  too 
rapidly  a  cheesecloth  shade  was  stretched 
over  the  frame  and  tacked  to  the  edges. 
The  seed  was  covered  rather  deeply,  per¬ 
haps  half  an  inch.  The  sprouts  push  up 
through  quite  a  depth  of  sand;  and  if  the 
sand  is  shaded  it  does  not  require  such 
constant  watching  to  keep  the  seed  from 
drying  out  while  sprouting,  and  thus  “die 
a-borning."  When  the  seed  started  the 
roots  quckly  penetrated  to  the  soil  below 
and  then  the  sand  formed  a  good  mulch. 
At  the  beginning  of  Winter  the  cloth 
shade  was  removed  and  during  the  Win¬ 
ter  hotbed  sash  were  laid  over  the  frame. 
Lucking  these  we  should  have  used  brush 
to  hold  the  show. 
During  the  early  Summer  of  the  fol¬ 
lowing  year,  3914,  there  was  a  protracted 
drought  and  the.  bed  required  watering  a 
few  times.  The  sand  mulch  made  this 
easy,  as  water  could  bo  poured  on  rapidly 
and  the  sand  then  held  the  moisture  for 
a  long  time.  By  midsummer  the  lit¬ 
tle  grass  plants  were  getting  too  thick 
in  the  rows,  and  being  big  enough  to 
handle  they  were  transplanted.  This 
was  not  a  difficult  job.  A  trench  was 
first  made  as  for  “heeling  in”  small 
stuff,  five  or  six  inches  deep,  with  one 
side  nearly  perpendicular.  A  section 
of  a  row  of  the  little  seedlings  was  dug 
up,  pulled  apart,  and  strung  along  in 
the  trench  so  that  they  would  take  up 
about  four  times  as  much  space  as  be¬ 
fore.  As  we  did  not  have  to  be  particular 
about  covering  the  hearts  this  work  was 
done  quite  rapidly.  The  roots  were 
then  trodden  in  firmly  and  the  bed  given 
a  good  watering.  This  time  the  plants 
were  set  in  good  garden  soil,  in  rows 
far  enough  apart  to  hoe  between,  and 
left  there  until  the  following  May 
(1933).  By  this  time  the  plants  were 
a  foot  or  more  in  height  and  were  then 
planted  in  the  field  where  they  were  to 
remain.  This  was  done  with  the  trans¬ 
planting  machine.  This  left  the  Timothy 
in  rows  three  feet  apart  and  the  clumps 
from  one  to  two  feet  in  the  row.  No 
particular  difficulty  was  experienced  in 
handling  the  Timothy  with  the  machine; 
but  there  was  some  delay  in  getting  the 
clumps  pulled  apart  ready  for  use.  One- 
quarter  of  an  acre  was  planted.  The 
land  is  heavy  and  had  received  a  good 
application  of  lime  and  complete  fertiliz¬ 
er.  Having  been  in  cultivated  crops  for 
three  years,  with  very  thorough  tillage, 
it  was  entirely  free  from  grass  roots. 
At  the  end  of  the  season.  1913,  the 
clumps  of  Timothy  had  grown  to  a  size 
that  gave  promise  of  a  substantial  crop 
of  seed  iu  1916. 
Cayuga  Co.,  N.  Y, 
The  Users  of  Our  Brands  Last  Season 
Have  the  Satisfaction  of  Knowing 
That  Their  Lands  Received 
Full,  Normal  Contents 
of  Potash 
“The  Potash  was  reduced  to  this  small  quantity  on  account  of  its 
scarcity,  due  to  the  European  war,  only  one  of  the  larger  fertilizer 
companies,  (The  Mapes  Formula  &  Peruvian  Guano  Company), 
maintained  their  full  quota,  as  in  previous  years.” — Bulletin  No.  4, 
December,  1915,  Massachusetts  Agricultural  Experiment  Station. 
“Only  one  manufacturer  has  maintained  the  high  percentages  of  Potash 
of  former  years.” — Part  1 ,  Annual  Report.  Connecticut  Agricultural 
Experiment  Station,  December,  1915.  (The  Mapes  Formula  & 
Peruvian  Guano  Company.) 
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