Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 January 1890 — Spring-Sown Timothy Seed. [ARTICLE]

Spring-Sown Timothy Seed.

The surest catch of timothy is secured by fall seeding, but it is worth while to sow some of this grass seed with clover in the spring. Timothy seed sown in spring is generally overshadowed by the clover, and does not make much show the first year. But the plants, though small, are not killed, and as the clover dies out they come in and fill its place. Where alsike clover is sown there should be a full timothy seeding, as the alsike dies after its first crop is cut The decay of alsike clover roots in the soil give an extraordinary stimulus to the timothy, which for a year or two thereafter will produce very heavy crops, and sometimes, when cut eariy, producing a large second growth the same season.