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As to the relative feeding value of the three principal grasses, 

 I have no positive knowledge, but know that they supplement each 

 other admirably, for the reason that they do not ripen all at the 

 same time. Meadow fescue after clipping or cutting for seed will 

 remain tender and to some degree for a longer time than either 

 brome or orchard grass. For real winter pasture there is perhaps 

 nothing better than winter rye, unless it be Kentucky bluegrass, 

 reserved for that purpose. Rye sown early in the fall on ground 

 calculated for corn may be pastured closely until May 1, when a 

 disk should be set to work and thoroughly kill it before planting 

 to corn. All remaining rye will not help the corn ; on the con- 

 trary, it saps the ground of moisture and is obstructive to good 

 cultivation. Winter rye sown in the spring will not go to straw 

 much before July, and has helped us out as hog pasture and has 

 acted as a nurse-crop for grasses sown in the early spring. We 

 have been able to pasture the spring-sown grasses right after mowing 

 about July 1. 



NORTH DAKOTA. Prof. J. H. Shepperd, Director of the North 

 Dakota Experiment Station, Agricultural College : Timothy, brome 

 grass and redtop have the field for meadow and pasture production 

 in this state. Brome grass finds its place in the drier districts where 

 timothy does not succeed, and where it in turn is readily killed by 

 ordinary cultivation operations when the grower is through with 

 it. Redtop is utilized for wet land that is subject to flooding. 

 Bluegrass is highly valued here as elsewhere for lawn-producing 

 purposes, but it is only a fair success where water cannot be pro- 

 cured for it, in the eastern part of the state, and is a failure in the 

 dry-land districts where an artificial water supply cannot be admin- 

 istered. Red clover is the most successful of the entire group of its 

 kind and is seconded by alsike. Mammoth clover survives here, but 

 is not so satisfactory as the common red strain. White clover is 

 used in connection with bluegrass for growing lawns. 



OHIO. Prof. Chas. E. Thorne, Director of the Ohio Experiment 

 Station, Wooster: We are comparing grasses in a small way, but 

 thus far have found nothing that would encourage us to expect 

 from it any superiority to our old and long-tested bluegrass and 

 redtop. Next to these I would place the tall fescue from my per- 

 sonal experience with it before the station was established. It is 

 especially adapted to redtop soils and possesses some points of con- 



