400 MEADOWS AND PASTURES 



pounds; bluegras?, 3 pounds; red clover, 5 pounds. Seeding pa 

 acre, 35 pounds. 



For permanent pasture in creek bottoms and other low lands, No. 

 ,1: Timothy, 14 pounds; redtop, 10 pounds; alsike clover, 6 pounds. 

 No. 2: Redtop, 24 pounds; alsike clover, 6 pounds. Seeding per 

 acre, 30 pounds. No. 3 : Redtop, 14 pounds; meadow fescue, 10 

 pounds; white clover, 6 pounds. Seeding per acre, 30 pounds. 

 No. 4 : Redtop, 14 pounds; tall meadow oat, 10 pounds; fowl 

 meadow fescue, 6 pounds. Seeding per acre, 30 pounds. No. 5: 

 Redtop, 14 pounds; tall meadow fescue, 10 pounds; Canada blue- 

 grass, 6 pounds. Seeding per acre, 30 pounds. No. 6 : Tall 

 meadow oat, 24 pounds ; alsike clover, 6 pounds. Seeding per acre, 

 30 pounds. 



WYOMING. Prof. Aven Nelson, Secretary of the Wyoming State 

 Board of Horticulture, Laramie : Until within comparatively recent 

 years we have depended very largely on the native grasses both for 

 pasture and for meadow. Now, however, we are growing a number 

 of standard grasses in meadows and to some extent pastures are 

 being made. Of the introduced grasses I think timothy takes first 

 place as a hay grass and bluegrass and redtop as pasture grasses. 

 It is scarcely worth naming any legume other than alfalfa. It is 

 grown very extensively now and is without doubt our most valu- 

 able forage plant. Red and alsike clover are also used, but hold a 

 distinctly secondary place. 



TEXAS. Prof. H, H. Harrington, Director of the Texas Experi- 

 ment Stations, Fort Worth: We have no grass comparable to 

 Bermuda in all that part of the state where rainfall is sufficient 

 to produce a proper growth, say east of the 100th meridian, or 

 where rainfall of from 22 to 25" exists. West of this line where the 

 rainfall is lighter, the various mesquite grasses and grama grass 

 are the best grazing grasses. A variety of the mesquite known as 

 Tobosa along the plains and valleys north and east of Davis Moun- 

 tains is an excellent pasture grass and makes a good quality of hay, 

 the hay being preferred by liverymen to alfalfa; but when the grass 

 gets dry in the field in winter it becomes very tough, and of course 

 less valuable. Where the rainfall is more, rescue grass and bur 

 clover succeed well and a mixture of these sown in alfalfa sod 

 makes desirable pasturage. The bur clover serves for winter graz- 

 ing, and early in the spring the rescue grass comes up in the 



