CONCLUSIONS ABOUT BLUEGRASS 99 



What of the number of cattle fed then and now? It 

 is mere guess-work but I think there are double the num- 

 ber fed now. There are more men at it now. There is 

 little forest left. Cattle are no longer grown on the farms 

 to any great extent; they come to be filled up, fattened 

 and to go on. The land produces double what it ever 

 did despite the roseate visions of eyes turned back- 

 ward. We are better farmers and better feeders, too. 

 We are not the mighty men of muscle our sires were, nor 

 are we so saving and economical as they. We are making 

 more money but we are not building fortunes as they did, 

 nor can we so readily as they did. They were in a new, 

 glorious land, blossoming with hopes. 



SUMMARY OF KENTUCKY BLUEGRASS. 



Bluegrass is the most universal of grasses, the best for 

 lawns on suitable soils not too far south, the best for 

 roadsides and certainly one of the best for pastures. 

 Bluegrass loves a rich soil with enough carbonate of 

 lime in it and sufficient phosphorus and nitrogen. It is 

 essentially a grass of limestone soils. It affords much 

 herbage of unusually high nutrition. Seemingly its one 

 rival as a pasture grass on good soils is brome grass 

 (Bromiis inermis). Bluegrass pays well for being fed 

 with manure and fertilizers. It grows well with clovers, 

 and they strengthen it. Bluegrass creeps into alfalfa 

 meadows and the result is strong, unusually luxuriant 

 bluegrass, though the alfalfa will be weakened. It is 

 best sown with a mixture of coarser grasses, such as 

 timothy, meadow fescue and brome grass, which it later 



