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the present time is to include a small quantity of the 

 seed of almost every grass and clover which has any 

 feeding value at all. This system has some advantages 

 but many disadvantages, inasmuch as it is expensive, 

 and a number of second-rate pasture plants are 

 introduced which produce only scanty feed for stock. 



With the object of securing a good pasture mixture 

 of maximum productivity on the most economical 

 lines, the writer examined the herbage of a large 

 number of the best pastures in the Border district of 

 Scotland, and to some extent in England, at various 

 seasons of the year. This enabled him to eliminate a 

 number of pasture plants from the mixture which were 

 often included, and include only those plants which 

 were actually doing their duty in supplying abundant, 

 succulent herbage for farm live stock. 



The seeds mixture; 1 ultimately arrived at was as 

 follows : 



Ibs. per acre. 



Italian rye grass .... 4 



Perennial rye grass .... 3 



Cocksfoot . i . . . i 



Timothy ..... 2 



Meadow fescue ..... 4 



Tall fescue ..... . 



Rough-stalked meadow grass t 



Red clover (perennial) .... 2 



Alsike clover ..... 2 



White or Dutch clover i 



Wild white clover . . . . i 



Trefoil ...... 2 



Chicory ...... i| 



Burnet ...... 4 



Total seeds per acre . . . 32^ 



1 This seeds mixture may be cheapened somewhat, without 

 materially affecting the utility of the pasture, by reducing the 

 alsike clover to i Ib. and the chicory to i Ib. each per acre. 



