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ample, timothy, the queen of hay grasses, is too coarse 

 when used alone for the best pasture grass, and does not 

 stand trampling so well as some ot. ers. 



Pastures should usually be made of a mixture of plants. 

 This will provide some varieties that start earlier than 

 others, root at different depths, adjust themselves to various 

 kinds of seasons, supply variety for stock, and endure longer 



Baling hay iu the West directly from the ineudow. 



without running out. Pasture mixtures should contain a 

 much greater variety than meadow mixtures. 



Pasture mixtures. Over the greater portion of the 

 United States north of the cotton belt and the region west of 

 the Missouri River, Kentucky blue-grass and white clover 

 are the most common and valuable pasture grasses. No mat- 

 ter what mixture is sown, one or both of these grasses is 

 sure soon to make its appearance, and gradually force most 

 other grasses out. When blue-grass and white clover have 

 taken possesion of a pasture they grow reasonably well to- 

 gether, though in some seasons one of them will predomi- 

 nate, and again the other. 



