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abundant yield than either separate. But one requires pasturage, 

 and that will destroy the other. 



It should be sown in September, unless sown on wheat, :and then 

 as early as practicable, to enable the roots to get sufficient depth to 

 resist the cold of winter. If sown alone it will, like timothy, make 

 about a half crop the ensuing year, but it is usually sown with 

 grain, wheat, rye or barley. There are a great many marshy spots 

 in Tennessee, especially on the Tennessee and Mississippi rivers, so 

 full of water that nothing can be cultivated on them, and on these 

 fine crops of Herd's grass could be secured every year, which would 

 certainly be far preferable to allowing them to run to waste. 

 These bottoms are usually of surprising fertility, and would go far 

 to supply the great deficiency of hay, and obviate the necessity of 

 importing from our more thrifty Northern neighbors. It is a per- 

 ennial, and if properly tramped every autumn will keep good an in- 

 definite length of time. 



This grass also finds a most congenial soil throughout West Ten- 

 nessee, in many places in that division of the State attaining the 

 height of five feet. It is probably better adapted to all the soils of 

 the State than any other grass. I have seen it growing in princely 

 luxuriance 6000 feet above the sea on the bald places of the Unaka 

 Mountains. It flourishes upon the slopes and in the valleys of 

 East Tennessee. It yields abundantly upon the sandstone soils of 

 the Cumberland Table-land, and beautifies the rolling surfaces of 

 the Highland Eim. In the Central Basin it sparkles in the beauty 

 of its verdure, and is second only to red clover and timothy as a 

 meadow grass. No other grass is sown so much for hay upon the 

 lands lying at the western base of the Cumberland Table-land. In 

 Warren county especially it is highly esteemed for its longevity and 

 fruitfulnes. 



