28 OECIIAED GEASS. 



W. F. Tallant, Montgomery Co., Virginia, in 

 Country Gentleman^ says of it, "There is no grass 

 that can be compared with it. This year, 1874, we 

 have experienced the most severe drought known 

 for years, and the hay crop, even on our moist blue 

 grass bottoms, have, in many instances, been an en- 

 tire failure. Fortunately for me a large part of my 

 farm is Orchard grass, and I have now an abundance 

 of hay from it. Much of our Timothy did not head 

 out at all. Our clover was hardly worth cutting, 

 and our blue grass did but little good until after the 

 late rains; while all the Orchard grass that I saw 

 seemed to be little affected by drought. 



I prefer Orchard grass hay to timothy hay as it 

 has more blades, timothy dies out in the course of 

 a few years, while an Orchard grass sod will continue 

 to get better each year for many years. One acre 

 of Orchard grass will afford as much pasture as two 

 of clover and timothy. I believe timothy to be an 

 impoverisher of the land, while Orchard grass forms 

 such an immense sod that for plowing under it is 

 equal to a clover one. Ira Porter, of Chautauqua 

 Co., N. Y., in Country Gentleman , of April, 1875, 

 says, "With me Orchard grass has been a success. 

 As a pasture grass it is much better than timothy; 

 with clover it is the most satisfactory crop for hay 

 that I ever tried. The yield is far more than any 

 yield of timothy that I was ever able to obtain from 

 the same land. My soil is a gravelly loam, no water 

 standing within 10 or 12 feet of the surface. Timothy 

 has never succeeded well upon this soil, unless the 

 months of May or June were wet. The quality of 

 the Orchard grass appears to be first-rate, and it is 

 well liked by stock of all kinds. It does not run to 



