274 



NUMBER OF PLANTS. 



pounds of clover, which is below the average quantity 

 used, we shall find by the same process that we have 

 over 1,000,000 seeds. If now we add these sums 

 together, we shall find that we have put upon the acre 

 no less than 95,000,000 seeds ! This gives about fifteen 

 seeds to the square inch, or about 2,000 seeds to the 

 square foot ! 



Again, one of the most intelligent farmers in the 

 country, a practical man, uses five pecks of redtop and 

 twelve quarts of Timothy to the acre for mowing lands, 

 and an addition of five pounds of white clover for pas- 

 tures, making no less than 124,000,000 seeds per acre. 

 There must be, evidently, an enormous waste of seed, 



TABLE X. AVERAGE NUMBER OF PLANTS AND SPECIES 

 TO THE SQUARE FOOT OF SWARD. 



