Published Weekly by The Rural tMlbllshlng Co., 
333 W. 30lh St.. New York. Price One Dollar a Year. 
Entered as Second-Class Matter. .Tune 20. 1879, at the Post 
Oftive r.t New York. N. V.. under the Act of March 3. 1S7!>. 
Grass Seeding,; 
I nm preparing n valley for a permanent hnyfield. 
Several years ago ( l'.HTl I plowed it in the Fall, sowed 
rye and (Whom turnips, plowing them under in the 
Spring. Through the heat of Summer I kept the field 
harrowed, having pur on lime. In 1910 I sowed Red 
clover, A Is ike and Sweet clover, inoculating each with 
oats, cutting the oafs in the late Summer. In 1020 I 
cut the first crop of clover, plowing under the second 
crop. In 1021 I again sowed oafs and clover, with 800 
lbs. fertilizer per acre; cut the oats in the Fall, and 
this Spring the circus commenced. I have plowed under 
this entire burden of clover, the Sweet clover being 5 ft. 
high. I tried every team in the community before f 
could accomplish it, and I fear many of the men have 
lost all hope of salvation. Well, the clover is plowed 
under, the land has been well harrowed and leveled, and 
is now sown to Jupaueso millet, which I intend to plow 
Stuffing, Soil; 
full crops of clean hay. The plan Mill .seem expen¬ 
sive to many fanners, but it will surely prepare the 
ground right. A permanent meadow, to he success¬ 
ful, must he on natural grass land, which means soil 
naturally moist without being wet. and well drained, 
so that the water level will not be too high. It must 
he well filled with organic matter. Some farmers 
seem to think that any reasonable soil will do for 
grass, provided they use plenty of fertilizer or top- 
dress with manure. That may answer for a rotation 
where the soil is plowed every three or four years, 
worked in corn or potatoes, and then reseeded. 
Killing, Weeds 
lime, and it is very much safer to have too much 
rather than too little. 
MIXED GRASSES,—For a grass mixture we 
should use a combination of Timothy, Red-top and 
Red and Alsike clover. That is a good combination 
for commercial hay. Other grasses might he added 
if the hay is to he fed on the place, but where hay 
is to be sold there is nothing better than the mixture 
here mentioned. In Maine Spring seeding with some 
“nurse" crop will probably he best, and we do not 
know of any grain better for this purpose than 
beardless barley. This grain makes a single upright 
A of Attfrora finals a, the,, appeared in a rough Massachusetts pas,are. shouting tore the,, are cleaning it up. The trees in the background indicate the 
size of this undertaking 
under this Fall, and leave the field in the furrows, ns 
it lies low and does not need to be seeded too early, 
in the Spring, when I plan to reseed, using the finest 
grass mixture I can fiud. with beardless barley for a 
nurse. The work on this field, except cutting the bay 
and sowing on a liberal amount of fertilizer every 
Spring, ought to be finished for a reasonable series of 
years. 
Shall I use lime before seeding down in the Spring, 
as clover certainly grows well, which I believe is not 
the ease on acid soil? The clover itself has been turned 
under, and the millet will be before the seeding is done. 
1 have no desire to throw money away, but I certainly 
do not wish to withhold it if the field would be Improved 
by its use. c .r 
Maine. 
M eadow requirements.—T he object of ail 
this Is to obtain a permanent meadow, one 
that may be cut for seven or eight years, and give 
Where a meadow is to lie permanent and cut con¬ 
tinuously for five years or more it should be stuffed 
with organic matter to begin with. A ton of grass 
will carry away nearly 20 lbs. of lime, and a first- 
class meadow should average two tons to the acre 
per year. Then considerable quantities of lime are 
washed out of the soil, and more is needed to act 
utx»i the decaying humus. In preparing for a per¬ 
manent meadow, therefore, a good supply of lime 
ought to he used. We should use at least one ton of 
ground limestone per acre, even though the clover 
now grows well. In fact, we think a top-dressing 
of ground limestone, right on the sod every three 
years, will pay. Both clover and Timothy demand 
stem, and certainly gives the grass a better chance 
than it can have with oats. We should cut the bar¬ 
ley early for hay. and thus give the young grass 
every chance. In our own locality and generally 
south of Maine we think Fall seeding of grass Is 
better, and usually no "nurse crop" is needed. Late 
Summer or early Fall is the natural time for seeding 
grass. That is the time when nature drops the seed 
and works it into the soil, either by the rain or by 
covering it with leaves or dead grass. 
THE CLARK SYSTEM.—Some years ago The R. 
N.-Y had much to say about the plan of grass cul¬ 
ture followed by the late George M. Clark of Con¬ 
necticut. Every year we have questions about this 
