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schools are located we may have an opportunity to make further 

 observations on growth of our standard grasses and clovers. 



CONNECTICUT. Prof. L. A. Clinton, Director of the Storrs Experi- 

 ment Station, Eagleville: The best grass for pasturage purposes in 

 Connecticut is Kentucky bluegrass. This is our natural grass 

 which makes its appearance on all soils where the regular seeding 

 fails, and it can be depended on with greater certainty than any 

 other grass. For seeding down meadows, I recommend a mixture 

 per acre of 8 quarts timothy, 6 quarts of redtop, 4 pounds of 

 red clover and 2 pounds of alsike clover. For the first cutting 

 this will give a larger percentage of clover hay. The second cutting 

 should have a little clover, but it will be largely timothy and red- 

 top. After a few crops of hay have been cut off if it is then turned 

 into pasture it will be only a short time before it will be June-grass 

 pasture, June-grass being Kentucky bluegrass. 



Prof. E. H. Jenkins, Director of Connecticut Experiment Station, 

 New Haven: The best grass in general for lawns and for pastures 

 which are closely cropped in this part of the country I believe is 

 the Rhode Island bent, a small variety of agrostis vulgaris. It will 

 stand trampling, close grazing and dry weather better than any 

 grass I know of, and makes sweet pasture. The yield is too small 

 to make it a profitable hay grass. I have never seen the sheep's 

 fescue used in pastures to any extent, but there are some strains 

 of it that I have no doubt would make excellent pasture. Here 

 timothy is universally grown where hay is to be sold, for it com- 

 mands the best price, though redtop is known to be much more 

 valuable for dairy use. Timothy and redtop ttre about the only 

 grasses that are ever sown in this state. Occasionally one will 

 find a farmer who has sown orchard grass in shady places and 

 who makes some use of the meadow fescue in mixtures of timothy 

 and redtop. 



NEW HAMPSHIRE. Prof. F. W. Taylor, Agronomist of the New 

 Hampshire Experiment Station, Durham: A large part of New 

 England and especially New Hampshire is naturally adapted to the 

 growth of our most valuable cultivated grasses, timothy, redtop, 

 bluegrass, orchard grass, and the common clovers, with the excep- 

 tion of crimson clover, find the soils and the climate here most con- 

 genial for a permanent home. This is attested by the fact that 

 many pastures and meadows continue to produce fair yields of grass 



