DACTYLIS GLOMERATA, L., ORCHARD GRASS. 115 



wheat harvest, so that it is often left until that is over, when it 

 is entirely too ripe. I have tried it on rich land and poor land 

 with good results." 



Orchard grass is much raised in Kentucky, where it has been 

 grown since 1817. 



Eichard Waters, of Oldham county, in The Tribune, says: 

 " Orchard grass grows best in good, strong loam, reasonably dry, 

 not on sandy land, nor in wet land. It will graze more stock to 

 the acre, and can be grazed ten days earlier in the spring than 

 any other grass. It makes good winter pasture, and during one 

 recent winter I kept 800 ewes on this grass all winter without 

 any other feed." 



On the same subject, we learn from Dr. J. B. Killebrew, of 

 Tennessee: "It likes a soil moderately dry, porous, fertile, and 

 inclined to be sandy. It withstands hot, dry weather better than 

 any other valuable grass." 



A prominent writer in The Rural World, of Missouri, states : 



" When suitably located and properly grown, it is one of the 

 best of our cultivated grasses, but when not so located and grown, 

 it is of indifferent value. Sow two bushels of seed to the acre, 

 if sown alone." 



Prof. D. L. Phares, of Mississippi, prefers to sow this grass 

 in the spring without a grain crop, and on well prepared land. 

 It thrives well without renewal on the same ground for thirty or 

 forty years, and is easily exterminated when the land is desired 

 for other crops. The growth in clumps may be obviated by 

 thick seeding. 



"Altogether and from every standpoint, I am compelled to say 

 still, as I did many years ago, that I prefer orchard to any other 

 grass. I could fill volumes with testimonials more strongly ex- 

 pressed than my own in favor of this grass over all others. 



"It produces seed freely, and they germinate with certainty, a 

 bushel weighing twelve to fifteen pounds." 



