SECOND PASTURE MIXTURE. 279 



Second Mixture for Permanent Pasture. 



Pounds. I Pounds. 



Meadow Foxtail, ........ 2 Perennial Rye Grass, 8 



Orchard Grass, 4 Timothy, 3 



Hard Fescue, 2 ! Wood Meadow Grass, 2 



Tall Fescue, 2 Rough-stalked Meadow Grass, . . 2 



Meadow Fescue, 2 j Yellow Oat Grass, 1 



Iledtop, 2 Perennial Clover 2 



June Grass, 2 White Clover, 5 



Italian Rye Grass, 6 I ~^g 



Here we have a considerable number of species, and r 

 according to the table on a preceding page, over forty- 

 five million five hundred thousand seeds. Thus, though 

 we use less than half as many seeds as our farmers gen- 

 erally do, we still allow more than seven seeds to the 

 square inch, or over one thousand seeds to the square 

 foot, a number larger than the number of plants found 

 in the rich and closely-woven sward of an old pasture, 

 as seen in Table XI. These, it will be seen, even if we 

 make a large allowance for bad seeds, will prpduce as 

 many plants as will grow well, while we still have by 

 far the largest number of stalks of redtop from no less 

 than three million seeds, though the weight of the red- 

 top-seed is but two pounds. This mixture is designed 

 for one acre sown without grain in the fall in northern 

 latitudes, or in the spring in soils where spring sowing 

 is found to do best. If any modification were proposed 

 in the above mixture, it would be to reduce the quantity 

 of the rye grasses, or to leave out the Italian rye grass 

 entirely. 



A mixture like the above would answer very well, 

 and is less expensive than the following, though it ia 

 probable that the greater original outlay for the seeds 

 recommended in the following table will be more than 

 returned in the additional yield. 



