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On moist places it runs to tufts. No grass does better in the 

 shade than this, and none gives so quick a second growth, or so 

 strong aftermath. With me it ripens precisely with red clover, 

 and I always sow them together. Clover and orchard grass I 

 sow together in the spring, using 12 pounds of clover and two 

 bushels of orchard grass per acre." 



L. F. Allen, of Buffalo, New York, approves of a favorable 

 article in the New York Tribune, saying: "I have had it in 

 continuous mowing and pasturage for upwards of forty years 

 without disturbing it. As a market hay, I admit that Timothy is 

 more salable, because town's people do not know the value of the 

 orchard grass, which is just as good for any kind of animal." 



In the Country Gentleman for 1883, the same man of wide 

 experience and observation, remarks: " Why it is that farmers 

 are so dull in the use of orchard grass, passes my comprehension, 

 when, on a single trial of its virtues, mixed with red clover when 

 sown, equal in proportion for a hay crop, it is better for any class 

 of stock than Timothy." 



The late Hon. George Geddes, of New York, said: "It is a 

 very valuable grass, but unless thickly sown it is inclined to grow 

 in tussocks or bunches." 



T. A. Cole, Madison Co., New York, in New York Tribune, 

 remarks : 



"After twenty years of experience, I have settled down upon 

 orchard grass as possessing greater merits than any other, for 

 both pasture and meadow, for fattening animals or for dairy 

 stock. When cut for hay, just before its bloom, and cured with 

 as little sun as possible, it will make more milk than any other 

 variety known to me ; if left to ripen it is worthless. When 

 sown thick enough it does not grow in tussocks and will crowd 

 out white daisies, and in five or six years I have seen it crowd 

 out quack-grass. Hundreds of farmers in this region are raising 

 it, and in every instance consider it superior as a forage plant/' 



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