Show turnips closer and timothy A michigan former farmer writing to american call agriculturist says having failed several times to get a good stand of grass by sowing the seed with wilh wheat heat w as is ia usually done dono bei heie e I 1 00 plowed 0 tho the lanil land ws is soon boon as lie the wheat was off As fast as it was waa plowed the land was rolled ind and brought into as good condition us as practicable ithen I 1 then mixed a pound of flat turnip sc seed edwith with tile tho clover and tini timiothy othy necessary to sow an acre and sowed bowed the laud land just as I 1 would it if I 1 had sown grass seed alone I 1 then rolled the seed in without barrow harrowing 1119 anti and although the weather continued remarkably dry tho the seed came up well avell even ou on tho the aig lightest 11 test of 0 tho the soil just before freezing up so large had baa many of these turnips gro p own I 1 could not resist the temptation to bless my self tit at tile the expense of the land so I 1 took off about seventy bushels of turnips to ta tho the aero acre and stored them away for early I 1 1 winter litster feeding feadin 11 even then the T Ing turnips io looked ca eil ilka a mass of green I 1 and when the frosts struck the leaves they wilted down not as a blanket to smother herout out tho the young plants but as 9 nn air admitting mulch protecting the young and timothy thil othy when the fu fust first st light ligh t snows of winter ni utter struck that field the turnip tops gathered tile the feathery co covering verin for additional protection tec tion tiou and when the sun sua melted the snow on oil other fields hern it seemed loath to depart lit in heiing when I 1 visited vi cited the field and ami S saw with faction thattie that the turnips were decayed find tho clover wa was s feeding upon their rei remains nails 1 I felt I 1 hall made inalle a discovery that enable tile me to become emaster of instead of being inist cred by similar conditions I 1 ilk do not remember that I 1 havo have ever cut a heavier cavier li growth of grass on oil any laud land thin than I 1 did thit that year on this field of course 1 lad had some wheat and alli OC occasionally a with turnip seed in my hay but with tile the exception of tempting mice to tile the bay of hay bay this WAS of little degli ment |