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its appearance in permanent pastures. When young, this 

 grass makes fairly good pasturage, but it soon gets wiry 

 and worthless. It is a grass that can abide acid conditions 

 in the soil better than other grasses, and if the pasture has 

 an occasional Hming at the rate of twenty bushels of slaked 

 lime per acre, say once in five years, there will seldom be 

 any appearance of broom sedge. In fact an occasional 

 liming is important to any grass and especially to the blue 

 grasses. 



