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States, and tha* should increase their value. They will be 

 in demand, and that soon. The wild grasses that now are 

 such an attraction to immigrants, on the table- lands of Ten- 

 nessee, will ultimately be exhausted by the increase in pop- 

 ulation, while the demand for food and every variety o? 

 domestic animals will be proportionably augmented accord- 

 ing to the increase of the population. Then every acre of 

 land that will produce blue-grass will be in active demand, 

 and will be devoted to stock raising, for which it is so well 

 adapted, and sheep and cattle will then fleck every hillside. 

 The fame of the Kentucky blue grass is so great that the 

 majority of people suppose Tennessee cannot produce it so 

 well, and they demand practical evidence of the fact. We 

 have that very evidence here spread out before our eyes in 

 the magnificent pastures of those who have adopted the 

 proper management. Kentucky has famous pastures, be- 

 cause, in the outset of her cultivation of the blue-grass, a 

 system of management was adopted that proved a success. 

 That system has been thoroughly tested both in Kentucky 

 and in some counties in Tennessee, and no one has made a 

 failure who has attempted it. Those who have put them- 

 selves to the trouble of learning that system, and putting it 

 in practice, have made as good grass as can be made IB 

 Kentqcky or elsewhere. As in other crops, the quantity 

 and quality of grass are in exact proportion to the care and 

 management bestowed upon it, and the sod is as good, the 

 blades as wide and long as can be seen anywhere, but this all 

 depends on the ^kill and attention of the farmer. Some 

 will sow a lot and then put in cattle, horses, sheep and hogs 

 to keep it eaten to the ground throughout the year. Under 

 such treatment the grass disappears, and such farmers con- 

 clude their soils are not adapted to grass. Let the grass get 

 a vigorous start, protect it from stock for the first year, 

 and fertilize it with stable manure, or some of the super- 

 phosphates, and be sure not to over-crowd the pasture with 

 stock. This is the true secret of having good pastures. 



