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How To Sow Orchard Grass

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
February
Year
1881
Copyright
Public Domain
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Last spring I had prepared a field for early sowing of spring barley in order that I might get the land well set in elover and orchard grass. After harrowing and cross-harrowing with a Scotch harrow, the ground was in perfect order. I started a Buckeye drill putting in the barley and elover seed. I followed sowing orchard grass-seed, aiming to cover the width of the drill and to get the seed into a good seed-bed. I was delighted with the manner my seeding was going on, when suddenly the wind sprang up and I could not s jw the orchard grass-seed. In my disappointment a happy thought struck me. Why can't the fertilizer sow orchard grass seed? I asked. I put in a half gallon of seed, and shut off the feed to the last notch, and started up the team. Imagine my delight, old farmer, when I saw the barley, the clover-seed, and the orchard grass-seed, each in its own way, coming out as evenly as machinery can work. To-day I have the best stand of elover and orchard grass it has ever been my pleasure to behold. Human hands cannot sow elover or orchard grass seed so well. One of the great troubles in seeding with orchard and blue grass is now overeĆ³me. If the farmer is sowing a fertilizer, he can mix with it either of these seeds if he wishes to sow tliem. as these two seeds are so light and difliculty to start, I think this mixing with a fertilizer will greatly aid us in gettins a good stand. It is worth mg.-

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Ann Arbor Democrat