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variety that propagates itself both by the root and seed. 

 Hence, it forms a sod, but the English blue grass grows in 

 tufts only. If he remembered aright, the only other grass in 

 the State that spreads by root is the white clover. And it is 

 owing to this quality that it takes and retains its hold on the 

 soil. It is a common opinion that it will root out the blue 

 grass itself, but thi'^ is attributable to another cause. If the 

 blue grass be pastured until the end of May, it will not form 

 seed that year, but the white clover seeds twice, and so close 

 to the ground that it is not easily destroyed by pasturing. 

 He dissented from the opinion expressed that English blue 

 grass will grow in the shade. The small blue grass and 

 orchard grass will do much better than it, and the last of 

 these is usually kept for pastures in the months of February 

 and March, on account of its keeping green during the win- 

 ter. All grasses growing in tufts will not bear trampling as 

 well as those which form a compact sod. The blue grass of 

 the Atlantic States is different. It is of a deeper color, al- 

 most of an indigo blue. There it forms a deep sod, but here 

 it is light. Our main reliance, he thought, must be on the 

 little blue grass. 



Its advantages are not sufficiently appreciated even by 

 those farmers most using it. One of these, in his county, 

 had sold two fields, one of corn for 200 dollars, and one of 

 blue grass pasture for 100 dollars. The first fed a lot of cat- 

 tle one month, but the last sustained them for two months; 

 thus showing that the corn, for which double the price was 

 given, was worth but half as much as the blue grass. The. 

 usual mode of feeding it was to let the young stock run on 

 it so long as the weather allowed them to graze upon it. It 

 was only when it was covered with snow, that it was found 

 necessary to feed with hay or fodder. 



As to sowing it, his experience was that if sowed on snow, 

 the leaves need not be burned off, for the snow carried the 

 seed into the ground; but if no snow, the loaves will prevent 

 it from taking an immediate hold, but the seed is never des- 



