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their respective merits. In addition, there are at least five 

 clovers of which the merits should be clearly understood. 



I have selected fifteen of the most important grasses and 

 clovers which I know to be common in this State and have 

 grouped them below for convenience in three groups of five 

 each. No mention is made of quack grass in this list or its 

 subsequent discussion. It is assumed that everyone knows the 

 grass and recognizes its merits for fodder, both in meadow and 

 pasture. The trouble is that we sometimes wish to use the 

 land for some other crop. 



LIST OF valuable; Vl^RMONT GRASSIvS AND CLOVERS. 



Five grasses of wet lowlands, meadows and pastures. 



Reed canary grass, 



Rice cut-grass, 



Blue joint, 



Fowl meadow grass. 



Red top. 

 Five upland meadow and pasture grasses. 



Timothy or Herd's grass, 



Meadow fescue. 



Orchard grass, 



Kentucky blue grass or June grass, 



Canadian blue grass. 

 Five clovers. 



White clover, 



Common red clover. 



Mammoth red clover, 



Alsike clover. 



Alfalfa. 



THE PROBLEM OE THE WET LANDS. 



These are the richest of soils and peculiarly suited to grasses. 

 The only trouble is too much water. If they can be drained 

 that is the direct way to the solution of the problem. Often this 

 is impracticable. If so we should recognize at once the fact 

 that, according to nature's laws, the upland grasses and clovers, 

 especially timothy and red clover, cannot live in wet soils and not 

 waste time and seed in trying to make them. Nature has given 

 us excellent wet land grasses — some adapted to one soil, some to 

 another. The best way to learn what these are is to observe what 

 ones grow there naturally. If there is much standing water it 

 may be Reed canary; if an old pond bed it may be the rice cut- 

 grass; if deep black muck it rnay be the blue joint; if §ubject 



