378 MEADOWS AND PASTURES 



timothy or preferably timothy mixed with a small amount of 

 medium, alsike or white clover. There are few others that are of 

 any value for pasture. In short rotations and in temporary pas- 

 tures, the common mixture of grass seeding is timothy 6 to 8 pounds, 

 medium red clover 3 to 6 pounds, white clover y 2 pound per acre. 

 For permanent pasture the seeding would be somewhat lighter of 

 these grasses with 8 to 14 pounds of Kentucky bluegrass added. 

 On our rolling prairie lands where drainage is good, any of these 

 seedings will do well for pasture. On low wet lands preference is 

 given to timothy, redtop and alsike clover. For the drier and 

 sandier lands the Austrian Brome grass seems to be best adapted. 

 The common hay crop in Minnesota is timothy or a mixture of 

 timothy and alsike or medium red clover. All three grow in profu- 

 sion on land that is in good condition. On lowlands redtop and 

 alsike with a small mixture of timothy are in high favor. In secur- 

 ing a stand of these grasses it is customary to sow them in spring 

 with the seeding of spring grains, preferably barley or spring 

 wheat. Fall-sown rye or winter wheat also make a very desirable 

 nurse-crop for grasses, the grass seed being sown the following 

 spring. Splendid results are obtained in the management of our 

 grasslands by top-dressing with barnyard manures. Both hay and 

 pastures yield heavily to this treatment, though the application to 

 the pasture should be made during the fall or early winter season. 



MISSISSIPPI. Prof. W..L. Hutchinson, Director of the Mississippi 

 Experiment Station, Agricultural College : Bermuda and carpet 

 grass are the two essential pasture grasses for this state. Lespedeza, 

 which is a clover, is perhaps of more importance than either as a 

 pasture plant, as it appears in almost every pasture in the state and 

 ranges in importance from being essentially the whole thing along 

 down to about 50 per cent. White clover is an important pasture 

 plant. Bur clover is very much less so, but more so every year ; 

 that is, effort is constantly being made to increase the area of bur 

 clover in the pasture. Lespedeza has spread all over this state by 

 natural methods, very little having been planted, and because of 

 this fact it appears in practically all pastures everywhere. It is a 

 particularly valuable plant in the brown loam area in the western 

 part of the state. This area extends from Tennessee to the Louis- 

 iana line, and the Illinois Central Railroad runs through it. Ber- 

 muda grass must be planted, and hence it does not appear over 



