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matured to keep the plant alive and healthy. If cut close, the 

 tuber is cut off, and the plants suffer and become feeble, and 

 perhaps perish. 



It is hardly suited for pasture at any time, unless it is kept 

 quite large. Horses, sheep, and especially hogs, must not be 

 allowed to eat it close to the ground. In England it stands pas- 

 turing in spring without much injury to the hay crop. Besides 

 these objections, Timothy is likely to be short lived ; the tubers 

 are easily trodden out by cattle, killed by drought or frost, or 

 eaten by mice or gophers. It sometimes rusts badly. It is not 

 hard to kill when cultivating for another crop ; it starts quite 

 readily from the seed, and is Avell suited for one good crop of 

 hay in a season, but is not well adapted for pasture. It is not 

 as well liked in Kansas and vicinity and in the south as it is at 

 the northeast. 



Timothy is one of the five grasses in the list recommended by 

 Mr. De Laune for permanent pasture and meadow in England. 

 For Kansas, hear what Professor Shelton says : 

 " Of this favorite eastern sort, we shall say but little, believ- 

 ing that over a large portion of the State it is of little value. 

 We have obtained good yields upon the college farm, and have 

 seen good crops of Timothy grown west of this point. Still it 

 suffers much from drought, and from the attacks of chinch-bugs, 

 and it rarel -; suvives the ravages of the grasshoppers." 

 For Nebraska, read from a lecture by Dr. Bessey: 

 " My inquiries were very generally answered, and in a most 

 satisfactory manner. They all indicate that throughout the 

 greater portion of the eastern half or two-thirds of the State, 

 Timothy is an exceedingly valuable grass for farm use. It is 

 invariably doing well, and in many instances producing crops of 

 hay far beyond the most sanguine expectations of those who 

 sowed it. It is of course not to be expected that it will succeed, 

 as we pass far into the northwestern portion of the State." 



