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Show BROMIS INERMIS SEED. Editor Dcscrcit Farmer: Find enclosed en-closed $1 to pay for my subscription to. your valuable Farm Paper, for the ensuing year. Will ypu tell your readers where we can obtain pure Bromus Incrmis, and Grn.ss Seed, also the probable price pcf hundred pounds, and how much would you recommend that we should sow per acre, on dry Sage-Brush Sage-Brush bench land? THOM'AS B. HEELIS, Santaquin. Answer by Prof. J. C. Hogenson, Agronimist, A. C. U. You can get sonvo good Bromus Incrmis seed from Blackmail & Griffin Grif-fin Co., Ogden, Utah, or from any reliable seed house in the stale. It will cost you probably $n per hundred hun-dred pounds. Seed in the spring on well prepared pre-pared lend at the rate of about eighteen eight-een pounds per acre. The only precaution pre-caution you need to take is not to cover the seed too deeply. From J4 to 1 inch is sufficient. If it is seeded deeper than this a poor stand will be the result as many of the young plants will be unable to push their way through the soil. If you seed with a drill you must watch and sec that the holes do not clog as the seed is chaffy. If you seed broadcast go over ov-er the field only once with a light Irnrcp"' to cover the seed |