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THE SOILS AND CROPS OF THE FARM. 



There are fourteen pounds of Kentucky blue grass 

 seed in a bushel. Two and one-half bushels per acre 

 or about 2,000 seeds per square foot has not been 

 found too much to sow of commercial seed when it is 

 sown alone. Seed of good quality should require 

 much less. It is probably better 

 to sow a small quantity, say one- 

 half bushel, with other grasses. 

 The blue grass will spread gradu- 

 ally and take possession of the 

 ground. Even when sown alone 

 it takes possession of the. soil 

 slowly and requires several years 

 to produce a compact sod. 



Red Top.— The plants of the 

 \ *,*^S^^^^fA genus Agrros^^s seem quite variable 

 "V^^lAK^T)^* and there is some dispute as to 

 the proper classification of the 

 cultivated species. Beal recog- 

 nizes three, although in the case 

 of two of them he says the speci- 

 fic difference is questionable. 

 However that may be, what is 

 known to botanists as Agrostis 

 Vulgaris, With., is commonly 

 called red top and is the species 

 generally cultivated. It is also 

 known in some places as Herd's 

 Burden's grass, summer dew grass, fine top, 

 fine bent, bent, Ehode Island bent, and furze top. 



As a hay crop it is next to timothy in importance 

 among the true grasses in this country. It often, 

 perhaps usually, forms a large part of the herbage of 



Red Top. 



