VALUE OF ORCHARD GRASS. 



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in cultivation. Any one acquainted with the growth of roots will see 

 at a glance, by the illustration, that it is a plant better fitted for 

 permanency than any of the other varieties of grasses mentioned in 

 this work. In addition to that it has a merit which I consider to be 

 far above all the rest; this is the early date at which it is in a condi- 

 tion to be cut for hay, whether sown alone or in mixtures. It is 

 found that it can be cut between two and three weeks before Timothy 



ORCHARD GRASS. 



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 MEADOW FOXTAIL. 



is ready. The present season my whole crop was cut and in the barns 

 about the 20th of June, at least twenty days before the other farmers 

 in this vicinity had begun to cut their Timothy. The advantage of 

 this earliness is not only that it gives three weeks longer for the 

 aftermath to grow, but another reason, far more important, is, that at 

 this date the white Ox-eye Daisy (Chrysanthemum leucanthemum),axid 

 other troublesome weeds, are not yet in a condition to seed, so that 

 should any of them happen to be in the fields, they are destroyed by 

 being cut before they have ripened their seeds. Any one riding along 

 the railroads through Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York or Con- 



