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GRASSES AND FORAGE PLANTS. 



If the soil be very dry, the wood meadow grass and the 

 Timothy may be omitted from the above mixture, and a larger 

 quantity of June grass used. The following mixture is well 

 adapted to dry, gravelly soils, which arc difficult to turf over. 



Table XXVII. Mixture for Dry Gravels. 



Redlop, • f • 

 Tall Oat Grass, 

 Red Fescue, . 

 Meadow Soft Grass, 

 Soft Brome Grass, . 

 Perennial Rye Grass, 

 June Grass, 

 White Clover, . 



3 pounds. 



8 



4 



4 



4 



5 



4 



4—36 



For protecting banks of rivers and streams from washing and 

 wearing away, the reed canary grass and the reed meadow grass 

 will be found very effectual. For preventing the drifting of 

 light sand, beach grass, (ammophila arundinacea,') is one of the 

 best. It is extensively used for this purpose at Frovincetown 

 and various other places along the coast. I have sown the 

 seeds of other species in such situations, but know of none 

 equal to beach grass for the purpose of fixing moving sands. 



As already seen, the general practice in New England is in 

 strong contrast with the foregoing tables of mixtures, for of 

 the two hundred towns heard from, all appear to raise the same 

 species, but no two recommend the same quantities for mixture, 

 and not one reports the use of more than two species of grass 

 mixed with one or sometimes two species of clover, as at all 

 common. 



As examples of the general practice as reported to me, and 

 with which I have been familiar for many years, the following 

 might be stated. 



I. A bushel (G lbs.) redtop, 1 peck (11 lbs.) Timothy, o lbs. red clover. 

 II. 1 1 ushel (12 lbs.) redtop, 1 peck Timothy, 8 lbs. red clover. 

 III. 1^ bushels (18 lbs.) redtop, 4 qts. (5^ lbs.) Timothy, 3 lbs. red clover. 



