ORCHARD GRASS, 2 



seed the second time, but makes a fine growth of 

 grass. It does not come to its best yield until the 

 third year from sowing." 



Mr. William Crozier, of Beacon Stock Farm, 

 Northport, L. I., who has had a large experience in 

 the cultivation of Orchard grass, states that he con- 

 siders it the most profitable grass a farmer can raise, 

 whether for meadow or pasturage. A ride over his 

 fields during the early part of this month (June) con- 

 vinced me of its superior merits. While the timothy 

 meadows in many parts of Long Island were so 

 backward as scarcely to appear more than six inches 

 high on an average, I found his Orchard grass and 

 mammoth clover meadows averaging fully two feet, 

 and in flower. Abundance of this rich, succulent 

 herbage was being cut and fed to his horses, &c. 

 His elevated and rolling pasture lands, studded with 

 Alderneys, Ayrshires and Devons, amply supplied 

 with a sweet herbage, composed of a mixture of 

 grasses in which Orchard grass predominates, and 

 with which those pastures are luxuriantly covered. 

 A twenty acre field of oats seeded down with Or- 

 chard grass and mammoth clover, 23d ot April, was 

 making a line appearance, the Orchard grass being 

 then several inches high, and coming up very evenly 

 all over the field. There is no doubt but that his 

 success is, in a great measure, owing to the excellent 

 system he adopts. He recommends thorough pul- 

 verization and cleansing of the land, liberal manur- 

 ing, and liberal seeding, even sowing on a rolled sur- 

 face and covering with a chain harrow afterwards. 

 He has succeeded well with both spring and fall sow- 

 ing of seeds under the above conditions; he sows 

 from one and a half to two bushels of Orchard grass 



