(20) 



tity of seed per acre. Never less than two bushels (14 pounds to 

 the bushel) per acre should be sown, and two and a half bushels 

 would even be preferable. Mr. Gould says that if the meadows are 

 dragged over in spring with a fine toothed harrow, and then rolled, 

 this disposition will be completely overcome. The disposition to 

 stool can also be checked by sowing with other grasses. A half 

 gallon of clover seed, one gallon of Herd's grass, and two bushels 

 of orchard grass, per acre, sown about the 25th of March, in our 

 latitude, will make an excellent pasture. By the middle of June, 

 upon good soils, the amount of forage will equal the best fields of 

 clover. It should not, however, be pastured the first season until 

 August, however tempting it may be. In this many Tennessee 

 farmers have made a mistake. By pasturing before the roots are 

 well established much of the grass is pulled up and destroyed. I 

 have met with many farmers who condemned the orchard grass for 

 want of hardiness and endurance, but in every case the fault was 

 with the farmer himself in pasturing too early. 



Orchard grass grows well in the shade, and hence its name. It 

 withstands, hot, dry weather better than any other valuable grass. 

 Three good crops of leafy hay, if the weather is seasonable, may 

 be counted on after the first year, but only one will blossom. 



The analysis by Prof Way of the green grass in blossom gives 

 the following result : 



Per cent. 

 Water... ............................................................................. ,70.00 



Fatty matter ............................................................................ 94 



Flesh formers ..................................................... '" 406 



Heat producers ................................................. ]g 3Q 



Woody fibre ............................................. 1011 



Ash .............. 



........................................................... 1.59 



Analysis by Scheven and Ritthausan gives : 

 Water ..... 



Fat ................. :;:; ............................................................ 65 - 



Flesh formers ......................... 



Heat producers ............................ 



Woody fibre ............................. .................................... *~ 



Ash ......... .................................... 16 - 10 



............................. ............................................ 2.40 



