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grasses depends much on the soil in which it is found. 

 In rich limestone soils it revels, and there few things 

 are able to keep foothold with it. Brome grass seems 

 crowded out by it, and even that dreaded quack grass. 

 Orchard grass seems to hold its own with bluegrass and 

 even to spread among it. Meadow fescue grows well 

 with it. When the soil is right, Canada bluegrass, red- 

 top and timothy give \vay before it. All the wild prairie 

 grasses yield to Kentucky bluegrass sooner or later if 

 found growing where there is enough- soil moisture. 



Clovers of many sorts consort well with bluegrass. 

 Naturally the little creeping white clover is found with 

 it. Red clover and mammoth clover grow well with 

 ; t. Alsike clover is found with it on certain soils. Al- 

 falfa does not much like bluegrass but bluegrass likes 

 the afalfa well and crowds in wherever it is sown. With 

 clovers growing in it, bluegrass is at its best, makes its 

 best yield and makes its fattest lambs, pigs and cattle. 



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There is a distinct relationship between the carbonate 

 of lime content of a soil and its ability to grow good 

 bluegrass. Carbonate of lime is one of the foundations 

 of soil fertility perhaps the one thing most essential 

 and most lacking in many types of soil. Where car- 

 bonate of lime abounds in the soil there is found the 

 most bountiful fertility. There is found a soft carpet 

 of bluegrass over every bit of land not tilled or forested, 

 often, indeed, carpeting the land beneath the oaks. Car- 

 bonate of lime is also the mother of the clovers and they 

 feed the bluegrass. The reader interested in what car- 



