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sionally covered over thinly with stable manure. Here it 

 has been observed that while animals graze the orchard 

 grass well they gnaw close the spots where bluegrass 

 grows. After orchard grass gets old and rank, say by the 

 middle of June, animals do not like to graze it. Rank 

 spots in pastures should therefore be mown and made in- 

 to hay, after which the fresh new grass will be grazed as 

 it comes up and the field will be thus eaten off together. 



Growth of Orchard Grass April 10 in Tennessee. 



I have observed that where a great burden of grass was 

 left on the land all winter, it sometimes smothered out 

 the roots, so there is no economy in not using it either by 

 grazing or mowing or both. 



It will not do at all to mix brome grass (Bromus iner- 

 mis) with orchard grass, although at first thought it 

 would seem an ideal mixture, as the brome grass has a 

 great tendency to thicken up by underground stems while 

 prchard grass is inclined to grow in bunches. The chief 



