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Show o ; GRASS SEED MIXTURES. Mancos, Colo., Aug 13, 1908. Descrct Farmer: In your issue of July 4th you gave some mixtures of grass seed for pastures Will you ---- - -- .-.a, please give in one of your future is- sues the time of year and method of sowing grass seed for pasture? Also please state where good, pure seed can be obtained, I have iomc upland under irrigation I would like to seed down to pasture for dairy ows. Please state if the mixture you give would be suitable for this purpose. GEO. HALLS, Mancos, Coto. ' Answer by Prof. Hogenson, A. C. U. For the upland pasture unden irrigation irri-gation the following mixture of grass-09 grass-09 will be found to give good satisfaction. satis-faction. Kentucky blue grass, six lbs.; Perennial rye grass, seven lbs.; Red Top, six lbs.; Orchard grass, three lbs.; Meadow Fescue, three lbs.; Red Clover, two lbs.; Alfalfa two lbs.; White clover, three lbs.; Meadow Fox Tail, two lbs. This mixture is best 'sown in the early spring as soon as .the ground ' can be worked without destroying its texture. The land should have been partly prepared the fall before and then pulverized in the spring. Seeding Seed-ing may be dom with a press drill, but care must be taken that it docs .- not dog1 and also that it docsmot put H tlic seed in too deeply. If no drill is H to be had the seed may be sown H broad-cast and harrowed lightly. H Pure scedt may be obtained from H Biar'eldcs Seed Co., Denver, Colorado, H Vogclcr Seed Co., Porter, Walton H Co., Bailey & Sons, Salt Lake City, H Utah, Blnckman & GrlfTin Co., Og- M den, Utah. H |