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GRASSES AND FORAGE PLANTS. 



plants as will grow well, while we still have by far the largest 

 number of stalks of redtop from no less than 3,600,000 seeds, 

 though the weight of the redtop seed is but two pounds. This 

 mixture is designed for -one acre sown without grain in the fall. 

 A mixture like the above would answer very well, and is less 

 expensive than the follovring, though it is probable that the 

 greater original outlay for the seeds recommended in the follow- 

 ing table will be more than returned in the additional yield. 



Table XVII. For Permanent Pasture. 



Meadow Foxtail, . 



Orchard Grass, 



Hard Fescue, 



Tall Fescue, .... 



Meadow Fescue, 



Redtop, 



June Grass, .... 

 Italian Rye Grass, 

 Perennial Rye Grass, . 

 Timotliy, .... 

 Wood Meadow Grass, . 

 Rough-stalked IMeadow Grass, 

 Yellow Oat Grass, 

 Perennial Clover, . 

 White Clover, 



2 pounds. 



4 



2 



2 



2 



2 



2 



6 



8 



3 



2 



2 



1 



2 



5—45 



If the cultivator desires to produce a close, matted sward as 

 soon as possible, no broad-leaved clover sliould be used, and the 

 above mixture will be quite suflficicnt without the perennial 

 clover. 



If the object be to make a permanent lawn, as is frequently 

 desirable around or in sight of the farm house, something like 

 the following mixture will be found to be on the whole the best. 



