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Table XXIII. Mixture for Mowing on Light Sands. 



Tall Meadow Oat Grass, 

 Orchard Grass, 

 Hard Fescue, . 

 Meadow Soft Grass, 

 Italian Rye Grass, . 

 Perennial Kye Grass, 

 Timothy, 



Perennial Red Clover, 

 White Clover, • 



pounds. 



4. 

 •10 

 3 

 3 

 4—40 



Table XXIV. Mixture for Reclaimed Peaty Lands. 



^Vhitetop, variety called Piorin, 

 Redtop, . . 

 Meadow Foxtail, . . 

 Fowl Meadow, 

 Italian Rye Grass, . 

 Perennial Rye Grass, 

 Reed Canary Grass, 

 Timothy, .... 



Rough-stalked Meadow Grass, 

 White Clover, 



2 pounds. 



4 



4 

 5 

 4 

 10 

 3 

 4—40 



If a reclaimed meadow is subject to occasional overflo^YS of 

 fresh water, the addition of two or three pounds of the manna 

 grass, (^g-li/ceria Jliiitans,') if it can be had, will be an improve- 

 ment. On such soils Fiorin, a variety of whitetop, does remark- 

 ably well, and the rough stalked meadow is indispensable. A 

 mixture especially adapted to such situations would be some- 

 thing like the following : — 



