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tiicky blue-grass, while giving bay of excellent quality, is 

 not likely to- produce such quantity as to prove satisfactory 

 to the best farmers. This species is best adapted to the 

 strong, retentive soils, and reaches its highest development 

 in the limestone regions of Kentucky and Ohio. On the 

 stronger soils in many parts of Massachusetts it is one of the 

 most aggressive of species, and often in time comes to pre- 

 dominate almost to the exclusion of more valuable kinds. It 

 flowers about with orchard grass. 



Meadow Fescue and Tall Meadow Fescue. — These two 

 species resemble each other so closely that they may be 

 spoken of together, though one, as indicated by the name, 

 commonly attains a considerably greater height than the 

 other. These fescues are intermediate in coarseness be- 

 tween redtop and timothy. They produce abundant and 

 vigorous underground stems, and are therefore aggressive 

 and persistent species. They are best suited in strong, re- 

 tentive soils, retaining considerable moisture, and in such 

 soils the meadow fescue at least often comes in spontane- 

 ously. These grasses have a bright, clean foliage, unusually 

 free from rust or blight, and form a very close turf. They 

 produce abundant stem and flower, as well as leaf growth. 

 It is the belief of the writer that farmers having soils of the 

 kind indicated, and desiring mowings which shall be fairly 

 permanent, will do well to give these grasses a trial. 



In the paper of last year the results of a comparison of a 

 mixture of seeds in which these species were prominent with 

 another mixture in which timothy was most prominent in the 

 first year after seeding were presented. Somewhat later in 

 this paper the results of the continued comparison of the two 

 methods of sowing in the second year will be given. 



The fescues start quite quickly after being cut, and on 

 good soils produce a fair amount of rowen. It is often 

 stated that meadow fescue is especially well adapted for use 

 in pastures ; but an experiment in lawn-mowing this species, 

 which it was l)elievcd would throw light on the question 

 of its suitability for grazing, indicates that it will not en- 

 dure such treatment. The lawn-mowed portion of a plot 



