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It was fertilized at the rate of three hundred pounds per acre. The 

 following year oats were sown and two hundred pounds of fertilizer 

 added per acre. Grasses and clovers were sown with the oats. The 

 oats yielded thirty-six bushels per acre. With the oats were sown 

 five pounds of Kentucky blue-grass, three pounds of timothy, five 

 pounds of orchard-grass, two pounds of red-top and three and one- 

 half pounds of common red clover per acre. This made a total seeding 

 of 18^ pounds per acre. The cost for grass and clover seeds at prices 



Fig. 160. — Unplozvablc pasture land in Franklin county. The land grows 

 excellent white clover, blue-grass, and red-top. The worst weeds here are 

 cedars. It is almost impossible to keep them out of the pasture. 



prevailing in 1909 would not exceed $3.00 per acre if purchased in 

 quantities sufficient to seed a medium-sized field. 



This pasture was seeded in 1904. The writer visited the field in the 

 summer of 1909 and found an excellent stand of all the plants which 

 were sown. Red clover and orchard-f;rass were not so permanent 

 at the others. Besides these, white clover and Canadian blue-grass 

 were present. For this type of soil it would not be bad practice to 

 add a small amount of both of these in a new seeding. The orchard- 

 grass which is rather expensive could be omitted or reduced in amount 

 and more timothy included. Timothy is the cheapest of the grass seeds. 



