sowing them on the pasture is to be recommended. The writer recalls an in- 

 stance where a farmer in South Dakota obtained an excellent pasture by collect- 

 ing western wheat-grass and filling in the bare places 

 with it. 



Though timothy as a general thing is a poor pasture 

 grass for upland soils, it may sometimes be profitably 

 employed in old or worn pastures. The farmer very often 

 has a greater or less quantity of seed which has shattered 

 out in the hay mow. It has cost practically nothing and 

 would probably hardly pay for the cleaning if he were 

 to sell it. If this be scattered about over the pasture, 

 either in the fall or spring, it will pay very well indeed. 

 The timothy may not live in the pasture more than two 

 or three years, but it will yield considerable forage in 

 the mean time and help the native grasses keep down 

 the weeds. In eastern Nebraska, Kentucky blue-grass is 

 one of the best grasses that can be used for reseeding the 

 native pastures. The seed may be sown just as the last 

 snow is melting in the early spring. The grass when 

 once started keeps slowly spreading, and after a time 

 forms an excellent sod. It begins its growth early in the 

 spring and, thoiigh often dry and short during midsum- 

 mer, makes good grazing after the fall rains, and hence 

 gives a longer season, during which the stock can be kept 

 on the pasture. 



SUMMARY. 



1. Keep from overstocking. 



2. When the soil begins to get baked and packed, stir 

 it up with a harrow. 



3. Give occasional light top-dressings of well rotted 

 stable manure. 



4. Fill in thin spots with hardy tame or wild grasses 

 before the weeds get a start. 



5. Keep the weeds mowed off so that the grasses may 

 get the benefit of all the plant food there is in the soil. 



Fig. 4 — Bushy blue-stem 

 (Aiidropogoii nutans). 



Approved : 



Chas. W. Dabney, Jr., 



Assistant Secretary. 



Washington, D. C, November 2, 1896. 



Thomas A. Williams, 



Assistant Agrostologist. 



