204 WHAT HAVE BEEN SOWN IN THE UNITED STATES. 



14. For warrens, 8 grasses, 5 clovers. 



15. For drifting sands, 3 grasses, clovers. 



These include in all 36 species of grasses, 10 of leguminous 

 plants and 5 of others, 51 in all. The best farmers of Great 

 Britain in more recent times are inclined to reject quite a num- 

 ber of species heretofore enumerated for sowing. 



What Have Been Sown in the United States. — In 1858, in 

 a prize essay for which he received S50, S. D. Harris, of Ohio, 

 says : " Of the grasses that may be called indigenous, and at 

 the same time having the virtues of what are called tame grasses, 

 there are but three kinds deserving of culture in Ohio. These 

 are Poa pratensis, Poa compressa and Trifoimm repens. And 

 all worthy of cultivation from any source on arable land are 

 Timothy, red-top, orchard grass, red clover, and, for variety of 

 crop, occasionally German millet and common millet. We 

 should suffer no loss were all the rest stricken from our fields at 

 once." 



In 1865, X. A. Willard reports that after making extensive 

 inquiries of the best dairymen as to the kinds of grasses em- 

 ployed in old pastures, they report June grass, fowl meadow 

 grass, meadow fescue, red-top, wire grass and sweet vernal. 

 Timothy, orchard grass, red clover, and some other forage plants, 

 they report, grow in pastures and meadows. 



A leading farmer, in his report for the Board of Agriculture 

 in 1868 says: "In Connecticut the almost universal practice is 

 to sow Timothy and clover, either with rye in the fall or with 

 oats in the spring, or in some few moist or rich meadows to use 

 red-top." 



During the same year, J. M. McMinn writes: "The pastures 

 of Pennsylvania contain June grass (there called ' green grass '), 

 Timothy, red-top, false red-top [Tricuspis sesleroides), blue 

 grass {Poa compressa) and meadow fescue. In the meadows a 

 few others were found." 



