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commenced groAving, it never came up ; but if in the fall, it 

 would keep growing. 



Judge Smith said that important improvements had been 

 made in different products by mixing different varieties through 

 the pollen of blossom. As it seemed to be conceded that the 

 Kentucky blue grass was better than ours, by sowing the two 

 together, a permanent improvement might be made in our 

 own variety. Different kinds of grasses often do better to- 

 gether, than when sown separately. In Pennsylvania, clover 

 is always sown with timothy for meadow, and the hay is pre- 

 ferred. Here the objection was that the clover did not ripen 

 early enough ; but he thought that the timothy was suffered 

 to stand too long. But the grasses are especially valuable as 

 fertilizers. Where grass will grow, the land can be made 

 rich, no matter how exhausted it may have become by im- 

 proper cultivation. In Pennsylvania the farm is generally 

 divided into ten portions, of which three are in cereals, and 

 seven in grass. The rotation is corn, oats, then wheat with 

 manure. The land is seeded with grass while in wheat. This 

 rotation will always improve land. But in the South, where 

 grass does not grow, the soil cannot be reclaimed; but when 

 exhausted, the only alternative is for the planter to seek an- 

 other location. 



Mr. Bollman said that the experience of the best farmers in 

 Monroe county, sustained, generally, the remarks of Mr. 

 Fletcher. A farmer of Lawrence county, who had been raised 

 in Kentucky, and who had extensive wood pastures in Law- 

 rence, had informed him that the difference between the Ken- 

 tucky blue grass and that here, was owing to the soil of Ken- 

 tucky being richer, lighter, and warmer, and the climate more 

 congenial. In Monroe it was regarded as necessary to burn 

 the leaves before sowing the seed; and he had seen pastures 

 where this had been imperfectly done, and for years after the 

 spots burned could readily be distinguished, — many places 

 which had not beeen burned having no grass. If the season 

 is unfavorable for burning, then the leaves ought to be raked 



