3 $ ILLINOIS STATE DAIRYMEN’S ASSOCIATION. 
For meadow seeding I would change the varieties in the combi¬ 
nation, selecting those that mature at the same time. I would 
recommend the cultivation and reseeding on old meadow lots m the 
months of August and September,to secure a good yield the following 
season I would use a prime dressing of a prime compost manure 
while cultivating the soil, thereby thoroughly mixing them to¬ 
gether. Then sow the combination of grass seed and harrow lightly 
with a smoothing harrow. I am now referring to upland meadows^ 
Lowland meadow I cultivate soon as the grass is mown, even in the 
month of July, but do not sow any grass seed until about the 20th of 
August. Sow seed until the 13th of October. Continue the work of 
cultivation until there is a low temperature, so that the seed will not 
germinate ; then resume the sowing of the grass seed and let it freeze 
with the soil and grow in the following spring. 
Pasture lots on upland I cultivate soon as the frost is out of the 
ground in the spring of the year; reseed and hold it as a reserve lot 
until about the 10th of June, when it will be in a splendid condition 
to use, producing feed the balance of the season without injury to 
the young seeding. Lowland pasture lots I cultivate and seed in the 
fall of the year, mowing the first two crops of hay; thus it will 
become a very strong sod, so the feeding of stock will not injure it. 
In relation to the quantity of grass seed sown per acre, that will 
depend upon the condition of the soil, also the variety. English au¬ 
thority says that when a lot of land is well seeded, each square foot 
of land produces one thousand one hundred healthy grass plants. I 
am using thirty-six to forty quarts of mixed seed per acre, with good 
results. American seeding will average about one hundred and 
seventy-five plants per square foot. I observe that when I use a 
heavy seeding I am not annoyed with a strong growth of obnoxious 
weeds, and also will have an improved sod on the surface of the land 
which has been cultivated. 
I will now state that all varieties do not mature at the same 
time, as perchance there are some persons present that would claim 
the grasses were very much crowded while they were growing. The 
combination is formed by mixing the earlier and later varieties 
together, which will cause a steady growth of grass through the en¬ 
tire season, thus affording a generous supply of feed for the use of all 
classes of stock. 
I have often been asked this question : “ What length of time 
will those lands remain as you leave them, when they are culti- 
