
The young member of the family also pitching in... to help dad care for his fine Ayrshires. Timothy, help- 
ing along with the other grasses, is doing a heavy part of supplying today’s much-needed hay. Clean hay, free 
from weeds, and a sizable crop of it, too—has resulted year after year, to the users of Hoffman “Farmers’ 
Choice” Timothy seed. 

One farm crop for which there seems to be enough 
seed available is Timothy. In a way, that’s both 
fortunate and unfortunate. Timothy is so useful in 
so many places that it's a good thing there is 
plenty of it. On the other hand, with other grasses 
so scarce there will be a tendency to load the grass 
mixtures too heavily with Timothy. On the advice 
of competent agricultural authorities, don’t do it. 
Too much Timothy provides strong competition 
that crowds out the other grasses and just defeats 
your original purpose in mixing. 
Timothy, however, is particularly useful in many 
other directions just now. For patching a thin 
stand of Alfalfa, for instance, it is ideal. Seed it 
right after the last cutting and you can get one or 
two more good years out of your alfalfa stand. The 
two go well together in the feeding, also. In fact, 
they should usually be together. If you are sowing 
Alfalfa this spring, add two or three quarts of 
Timothy per acre to help prevent heaving and help 
the legume resist winter kill. 
Timothy is usually thought of for hay. In this 
connection, note the suggestion on cutting Tim- 
othy on page 10. When cut too late, Timothy not 
gies 
only loses protein value and digestibility but be- 
comes too dry. While Timothy doesn’t recover 
very quickly in grazing, it has a place with other 
grasses in the pasture and poultry range. For 
chickens, the authorities rate it right up front in 
palatability, nutritional value and resistance to 
wear. 
Now, of course, there is Timothy and Timothy. 
For over thirty years we have been getting our 
Farmers’ Choice brand from special sources that 
have never failed to produce plump, vigorous 
seed. And we get the pick of the crop. In all those 
years it has been consistently around 99% per 
cent pure, free of all noxious weeds. 
This thoroughly cleaned, vigorous seed has been 
responsible for the big hay crops and long lived 
stands that so many Hoffman friends report. Tough 
rooted, grows in stools, and does not send out 
runners. For around four years it continues to 
produce crop after crop of hay, but it can’t stand 
pasturing too long. Timothy is such a valuable 
seed in so many places you'll want to have it on 
hand. Get the seed that has proved its ability to 
get results—Farmers’ Choice. 
