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select the best varieties. The more especially is this the case when it 

 is expected, as most farmers will do, to pasture to some extent the 

 meadow, or when it is wished to train it as a meadow a few years 

 and ultimately let it pass into a grazing lot. It is quite a common 

 custom in this State to mix clover and orchard grass, or clover and 

 Herd's grass, or clover and timothy, and sometimes timothy and 

 Herd's grass are mixed, and this is about the extent of mixing done. 

 In the great meadows of the Northwestern and New England 

 States where grass culture has been practiced for years, it has been 

 demonstrated often that the admixture of several varieties increase* 

 many fold the yield of grass, even if not wanted for pasturage. It 

 secures an early stand, and if the ground fails to suit one specie.", 

 another will flourish, and thus all vacant spots are covered. These 

 spots of even an inch or two may s<>em insignificant, but when they 

 are multiplied all over a large field they will materially affect the 

 yield. The crop is made up of single stalks, and every stem is of 

 importance in the aggregation. 



It should be kept in mind in' the selection of seeds to put those 

 together that will blossom at the same- time, unless it is intended 

 for a pasture, in which case the reverse should be considered, for 

 then it is best to so arrange it as to have a succession of ripening 

 crops, and the stock can be supplied throughout the year with such 

 grasses as will be young, tender and succulent. 



Some require or are improved by the tramping of stock. If left 

 to themselves they have a tendency to tuft or spring out of the soil 

 until their roots are exposed, when they fall a prey to the sun or to 

 the freezes. These tufts or tussocks, as they are also called, will 

 leave at least half the ground bare, and thus, also, much of the hay 

 is lost. But if tramped by stock, the grass is pressed back into 

 the soil and a turf is kept up that covers the whole surface. 



Some of the grasses, however, as timothy, do r ot require and 

 will not bear grazing for various reasons. These grasses ought not 

 to be mixed with those that are benefitted by timothy, and should 

 such be disposed to tuft, the use of a heavy roller is the only remedy 

 and the vacant spaces can easily be reset by sowing seeds of the 

 same or other varieties on them, and then giving them a light coat 

 of manure. 



It may be assumed that in nearly all meadows or pastures clover 

 should be a constituent. It is an easy matter to secure a stand of 

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