Hay Mixtures and Emergency Hay Crops 
for producing a 
Maximum Crop of Hay on Average Good Soils 
We are constantly being asked, “What shall we sow for a good hay crop?” 
The following is what we use, and have used for 50 years on the Dibble Farms, and our hay crops have 
been uniformly satisfactory. 
MIXTURE FOR HAY NO. 1 
4 lbs. Medium Red Clover ) 
4 lbs. Mammoth Red Clover 
2 lbs. Alsike Clover 
7 lbs. Timothy or Timothy-AIsike Mixture 
17 lbs. per acre 
If your land is sour, low, wet, and thin, add 4 pounds of Red-Top, more Alsike, and less Medium and 
Mammoth. Sow Alfalfa seed alone, either Northern-grown Grimm or Common, at the rate of 15 to 20 
pounds per acre. To inoculate the soil it is good practice to sow 4 quarts of Common Alfalfa seed per acre 
with the mixtures recommended above. This addition of Alfalfa frequently makes a splendid mixed hay 
and we have known it to add at least a ton to the acre to the crop. 
Seeding Hay Crops That Can Be Pastured for a 
Year or More Before Plowing 
No. 2 on Alfalfa Soils 
6 lbs. Timothy or Timothy-AIsike Mixture 
6 lbs. Medium or Mammoth Clover 
6 lbs. Alfalfa, Common or Grimm 
1 lb. Wild White Clover or White Dutch 
19 lbs. per acre 
No. 3 on Normal Soils 
8 lbs. Timothy or Timothy-AIsike Mixture 
6 lbs. Medium or Mammoth Clover 
4 lbs. Alsike Clover 
1 lb. Wild White Clover or White Dutch 
19 lbs. per acre 
EMERGENCY HAY CROPS 
Two bushels of Oats and one bushel of Canada Field Peas per acre, sown as early in the spring as pos¬ 
sible, constitutes about the best catch hay crop eastern farmers can plant. Cut for hay when Oats are in 
early milk stage. Seedings may be put out with this mixture, thereby causing no upsetting of the rotation. 
SWEET CLOVER, sown with Oats on well-limed land, may be tall enough to cut with Oats, improving 
its protein content, and may be cut or pastured later. 
SOY BEANS make an emergency hay crop, having a feeding value similar to Alfalfa. Inoculate Soy 
Beans. Drill shallow, on a good seed-bed, after corn-planting time, when weather is warm. Sow 6 to 8 
pecks per acre if drilled solid, or 2 to 4 pecks in close rows. Cut after pods form and before leaves start to fall. 
SUDAN GRASS, drilled at the rate of 20 to 25 pounds per acre soon after corn-planting, makes con¬ 
siderable amount of hay. Cut when just headed out. It will sprout up and make pasture or a second crop 
of hay. 
MILLETS are reliable producers and will make a crop in 60 to 80 days. Sow 50 pounds Golden or 
Hungarian Millet to the acre, or 20 pounds of Japanese, the latter in moist soil. Do not sow till weather is 
warm, and cut for hay just before the seed forms. 
