GRASSES OF MAINE. 



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practice in Maine,) the mixture preferable in major practice, 

 includes nine species — herds-grass, red clover, Alsike clover, 

 orchard grass, June grass, red-top, foul meadow, Italian rye 

 grass and meadow fescue. Blue grass may take the place of 

 meadow fescue, and for late soils, is better. The quantity of 

 each species composing this mixture, the weight per bushel, 

 the number of seeds in a pound, and the quantity of each for 

 an acre, are herewith given in tabulation : 



NAME OF GRASSES. 



Timothy 



Red Clover , 



Alsike Clover 



Orchard Grass 



June Grass 



Red Top 



Foul Meadow 



Italian Rye Grass 



Meadow Fescue 



This gives 40 pounds or 45,000,000 seeds to the square 

 acre, 1300 to the square foot, or 8 seeds to the square inch. 

 (Although Italian rye grass is ranked as an annual, it practi- 

 cally is a biennial. It is early and forms an admirable winter 

 feed for sheep.) 



Forty pounds per acre may look like an allopathic dose, 

 but after deducting the " outs " for old and adulterated seed, 

 errors in selecting, covering too deep, diseases, insects, birds 

 and other mishaps, in most instances, one is left with " short 

 weight." Few know, and fewer ever ask, how much seed is 

 lost by covering it too deep. Precise tests show that the 

 greatest number germinate when covered one-quarter of an 

 inch ; at two inches, one-half is lost ; at four inches, the whole. 

 Let it never be forgotten, that it is not the quantity of seed 

 sown that makes a good seeding, hut the quantity made to 



