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Show AGRICULTURAL INQUIRIES. Editor Deseret. Farmer : Will you please give me tire following in faring lion through the columns of "SMiat Big Farm Paper , 1. When is the best time to sow Brome Grass, in the fall or spring? And if in the fall would you advise sowing in August or September, or late in tire fall. so. that it will come up early the following spring? j. Slould hill laud be plowdd before be-fore sowing Bfome Grass Would you advise sowing oats with the Brome? v li IMPORTER, Morgan. f s .- i ' . Answer by J. C. Hogcnson, A. C. U. TJtub lat time to uw Brome grass eed is in the spring of the year as soon ;i the land can be worked Veiling is somel!ni6s1ion late in the I fall or early in the spring on the I snow, but this is not to be rccom- I mendedv Seed with a drill if you h.'tVe ' one that will work well with tltis ' settl, if trot sow it brtm(lefit and hgr-row hgr-row in very lightly. iS pounds ptfr acre. On hills' for range purposes Broilta grass may bo seeded without plowing by turning over a sod every hrce Or four feet, witli a spade and then sow Drome grass seed in these places. 'In time the grass will spread and cover the range if allowed to get well rooted root-ed before pasturing. |