DACTYLTS GLOMERATA. L.. ORCHARD GRASS. Ill 



seeds are matured, it becomes more toiigli and woody than even 

 Timothy, and cattle will need to have their teeth sharpened to 

 eat it in tliis stage of its growth. 



'• Orcdiard grass h^ves a deep, rich, moist soil, and in such a 

 soil no other grass yields such an abundant hai'vest. Why it is 

 so much neglected among ns we cannot divine, unless it is the 

 fashion of sowing Timothy and (dover, and fashion is as mucli a 

 tyrant among farmers as among the ladies, though showing his 

 power in a different mode." 



A. W. Cheever, a most successful farmer and ei^litor of Massa- 

 chusetts writes: '' I have now cultivated this grass some ten 

 or twelve years, and feel that I can speak of it ;inderstandingly. 

 It is a grass that must be understood to be appreciated. Grown 

 on i^oor, dry land, by a poor, lazy farmer, wlio is always behind 

 hand with his work, it Avill not give satisfaction ; but on rich, 

 moist land, capable of cutting two or three crops in a season, 

 sown thickly with a mixture of clover and June grass, or other 

 kinds ripening at or about the same time, and under the man- 

 agement of a wide-awake farmer, I can confidently pronounce it 

 the most valuable grass known in this country at the present 

 time. It may be cut two or three times a year, jiroducing large 

 crops of the very best of fodder, just as long as the fertility of the 

 land can be maintained l»y top dressing. It is the earliest grass 

 in the spring and the latest in fall." 



E. H. Libby, in 1883, wrote me that '' A little while ago the 

 New England Homestead contained numerous letters from farm- 

 ers week after week, speaking in the highest terms of this grass." 



T. D. Curtis, of New York^ says. Orchard grass is a most 

 excellent hay plant, but it requires a rich soil. A well sodded 

 pasture of this grass is a thing to admire as well as for use and 

 profit, 



Wm. Crozier, of New York, speaks as follows: 



''Heretofore the base grass in all the Northern States has been 



