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Show SEEDING PASTURES. iffl How One Man Handled His Land After Prnlrle Grasses Had Been Fed Out B My experience Is not very extcn- slve, but I will say that I seeded a BB pralrlo pasture after tho prnlrlo grasses had been fed out, with one VB part timothy, ono part red top and one part bluo grass. I found that tho timothy nnd blue grass took good on ftVB tho high ground and tho red top took best on tho, low ground. 1 found, too, BBJ that after about thrco years tho blua (BB grass had crowdod everything elst BB out, even tho weeds to a cernln ex- tent. It takes bluo grass about two BB years to get a good start. But tin red top did flno on low ground thi OkI first year. If I wero going to seed i tlaS paRturo for cattle, horses nnd shoon, IrP! especially If tho land had been undoi mtW. cultivation, I should sow two parts rca wwi clover, one part timothy and ono par! (151 bluo grass, and on low lands I woula (RvS put ono part timothy and ono part roi KsIk top, for the reason red top does bosi v W&S on low ground. I find In my pas turn (iWi on tho high, dry knolls thnt In Jun and July, when tho weathor Is dr E'i and tho sun Is hot, these knolls drj Fi,' out nnd give llttlo or no feed, henrt '' my reason for sowing red top on tin for stock during tho dryest part oj m'&i tho season, and, too, thero is alwnyi ?Wi a heavy growth around tho sloughs ot low plsces thnt mako flno grazing dur- Ing tho winter months when It Is nol Kiwi covered with snow. Now, continued ?&m' tho correspondent of Fnrmors' Ito vlow, my reason for sowing timothy, WM and clover Is that the clover helps toj BJ shade tho timothy and bluo gross nftoj B tho harvest hns been taken off, and It KBJ also helps to fill out tho stand until B tho timothy und blue gran get a gtod, BB start BB |