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into rows and burned. This was especially necessary in the 

 oaklauds, for the leaves of the oak were long rotting. It was 

 regarded best to sow timothy with the blue grass, and the 

 more the timber could be taken off, the better and greater the 

 quantity of grass. 



In Monroe county, there was much of the English blue 

 grass raised. This grass grew in bunches, and did not form 

 a continuous sod. Which was the preferable grass, had long 

 been, and is yet an unsettled question. The objections to the 

 English are, that it will not bear trampling as well as the 

 Kentucky, and its spring growth is more in the formation of 

 seed than leaf. But the fall growth forms a heavy leaf, which 

 continues greener than the Kentucky grass. Hence for 

 winter pastures he regarded it as the better. It will grow in 

 a thicker woodland. It was a matter of great surprise to him 

 that farmers should toil through the spring, summer, and fall 

 months, to raise enough food to keep their stock over winter, 

 and exhaust their cultivated lands in so doing, when with 

 little labor they might have blue grass pastures which would 

 almost keep their stock. The recent census showed that in 

 Monroe, as well as in many other counties, the number of 

 acres of uncultivated lands was greater than the cultivated. 

 The average value of lands there is about $10 per acre, and 

 every one can readily see what an immense outlay is made 

 in lands yielding nothing but now and then a tree for farm 

 purposes. Yet all this land, without detriment to the valua- 

 ble timber, might be made productive and profitable with but 

 little labor and expense. The farmers had not given that 

 consideration to woodland pastures which they ought to have 

 done, and which they must do, if they would preserve from 

 entire exhaustion their ploughed lands. 



Mr. Secrest remarked that, in Putnam county, all grasses 

 were very successful, because that county abounded in hme 

 and potash. There were three kinds of blue gra.-s in culti- 

 vation there. The first is the common or little blue grasa, 

 which is not found in the Atlantic States. It is the only 

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