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IV. 3 pecks (9 lbs.) redtop, 6 quarts Timothy, 6 lbs. clover. 



V. 1 bushel (12 lbs.) redtop, 1 bushel (44 lbs.) Tim'y, 10 to 15 lbs. clover. 



VI. 1 peck (3 lbs.) redtop, 1 peck (11 lbs.) Timothy, 8 lbs. clover. 



VII. 4 quarts (11 lbs.) redtop, 1 peck (11 lbs.) Thuothy, 2 quarts red 



clover, 1 pint white clover. 



Vin. 16 quarts, (6 lbs.) redtop, 12 q'ts (16| lbs.) Timothy, 6 lbs. clover. 



IX. 12 quarts (161 lbs.) Tunothy, 4 lbs. clover. 



X. 1 bushel (12 lbs.) redtop, i bushel (22 lbs.) Timothy, 10 lbs. clover. 



XI. 1 peck redtop, 3 pecks Timothy, 6 lbs. clover. 



XII. 3 pecks redtop, 1 peck Timothy, 5 lbs. clover. 



XIII. 1 bushel finetop, 1 peck Timothy, 8 lbs. clover. 



XIV. 1 bushel redtop, 1 peok Timothy, 12 lbs. clover. 

 XV. IG quarts redtop, 10 quarts Timothy, 6 lbs. clover. 



XVI. 1 bushel redtop, -J- bushel Timothy, 10 lbs. clover. 



XVII. 5 pecks redtop, ^ bushel Timothy, 4 lbs. clover. 



XVIII. 1 bushel redtop, 1 peck Timothy, 8 lbs. clover. 



XIX. 1 peck redtop, 1 peck Timothy, 10 lbs. clover. 



XX. 3 pecks redtop, 8 to 10 quarts Timothy, 6 to 8 lbs. clover. 



These mixtures are sufficient to show the exceeding diversity 

 in our practice. 



A little attention to the weight of the different seeds recom- 

 mended in the above tables will explain why one particular 

 quantity which may appear small at first sight, is sufficient in 

 some cases, as it will show a vast difference in their weight ; a 

 given number of pounds of some species containing many more 

 seeds, and therefore producing a far larger number of plants, 

 than an equal weight of others. 



There are few points in our practice, it seems to me, where 

 greater improvements could be made than in the selection and 

 mixture of our grass seeds. If the money which is now 

 literally thrown away by over- seeding with one or two species 

 were expended in procuring other species and improving our 

 mixtures, there is but little doubt that the aggregate profit on 

 our grass crop would be much greater than it now is. 



Some maintain that one or two species are sufficient, because 

 certain grasses are " natural," as they say, to their land, and 

 come in of themselves. This may, in some cases, be true to 

 some extent, for such grasses will come in, in time, but we are 



