THE EARTH'S BOUNTY 



bushels and a half of seed per acre. An 

 old man assured my husband that " Rocke- 

 feller couldn't pour money on the land that- 

 a-way and not come up against the poor- 

 house." 



Of course, grass-seed could be bought at the 

 village feed-store for 80 cents a bushel, but 

 what is the use of paying for weed seed? And 

 poor grass-seed usually contains a goodly per- 

 centage. Moreover, the too fine texture of 

 the clayey soil is accentuated by constant till- 

 age. Therefore, having thoroughly aroused 

 the soil to active life, the next consideration 

 was to sow it to a permanent crop, which this 

 mixed grass really is, lasting, they say, over 

 twenty years. Our experience with it has only 

 been eight years, but it yields better now than 

 it did at first, so I quite believe in the twenty 

 years' term. 



On March 2d clover at the rate of ten 

 pounds to the acre was added; and on June 

 15th of the following year we cut 39 tons 

 of splendid hay; second cutting, on August 



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