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"Farmers pay too little atttention to their pastures." — A". H. Agrl. Rept. 

 "The cheapest manure a farmer can use is clover seed." — American 

 Proverb, 



"No grass, no cattle: no cattle, no manure; no manure, no crops." — 

 Belgian Proverb. 



" Then learn to toil and gaily sing. 

 All flesh is grass, and grass is king." 



— Missouri Agrl. Rept. 

 " Tbf> tfirm prrass is only another name for beef, mutton, bread and 

 clothing." 



" Feed your land before it is hungry; rest it before it is weary; weed it 

 before it is foul." — English Farmer. 



" One year's seeding 

 Is seven years' weeding." 

 " He who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, 

 is a great public benefactor." — Dean Svnft, in about 1720. 

 " And the ripe harvest of new-mown hay 

 Gives it a sweet and wholesome odor." 



— Colley C'ibber. 

 " The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the year, 

 Of waihng winds, and naked woods, and meadows brown and sear." 



— Bryant. 

 " Plants do not grow where they like best, but where other plants will 

 let them." — Deari Herbert. 



" How doth the little busy bee 

 Improve each shining hour, 

 By carrying pollen day by day 

 To fertilize each flower." 

 " And he gave it for his opinion that whoever could make two ears of 

 corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one 

 grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential 

 service to his country, than the Avhole race of politicians put together." — 

 Gulliver^s Travels. 



" But of all sorts of vegetation, the grasses seem to be most neglected; 

 neither the farmer nor the grazier seem to distinguish the annual from 

 the perennial, the hardy from the tender, nor the succulent and nutritive 

 from the dry and juiceless. The study of grasses would be of great con- 

 sequence to a northerly and grazing kingdom." — White's Nat. His, of 

 Selboume. 



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