MIXTURE FOB GEAVELLY SOILS. 



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These lands, when properly reclaimed, constitute the 

 best part of the farm, and not unfrequently produce 

 luxuriant crops of grass and hay, for years in succes- 

 sion, without apparent exhaustion. 



Where they are liable to occasional overflows of fresh 

 water, or to lie submerged, as is not unfrequently the 

 case with low lands along the margins of streams, the 

 mixture may be varied, as follows : 



Marshy Grounds liable to be occasionally over/lowed 

 with Fresh Water. 



Pounds. 



Fiorin, . . 4 



English Bent, 3 



Tall Fescue, 5 



Slender Fescue, 2 



Manna Grass, 5 



Reed Canary Grass, 3 



Pounds. 



Timothy, 4 



Redtop 3 



Rough-stalked Meadow Grass, . . 4 



Fowl Meadow Grass, 6 



White Clover, 3 



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If it be desired to cover rocky and gravelly hills and 

 soils of a very poor quality with grass, the mixture in 

 the following table will be most serviceable : 



Mixture for Rocky or Gravelly Hills. 



Pounds. J Pounds. 



. . . . 2jTimothy, 6 



. . . . 2|Wood Meadow Grass, 3 



. . . .3 June Grass, 2 



. . . 3 Rough-stalked Meadow Grass, . .2 



. . . . 4 Black Medic, 3 



. . . . 2,White Clover, 8 



Redtop, 

 Tall Oat, 

 Crested Dog's-tail 

 Orchard Grass 

 Red Fescue, 

 Meadow Soft Grass, 



Perennial Rye Grass, ...... 6 ' "^ 



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 follow- 

 ing mixture is well adapted to dry, gravelly soils, which 

 are difficult to turf over. 

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