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Two bushels with clover are recommended or two and one-half 

 to three if alone. The objection to sowing orchard grass with 

 timothy is in the difference in time of ripening, the latter being 

 immature when the former is just right. 



Let no farmer howev'er sow orchard grass with the idea that 

 it will produce large crops of hay without corresponding feeding. 

 It is simply a grass that is capable of appropriating a large 

 amount of fertilizing material and yielding accordingly. It 

 seems to be less affected by drought than any other of the valu- 

 able grasses and will produce more than any of them under un- 

 favorable conditions, but three tons of hay per acre does not 

 come from nothing any more than 21 lbs. of butter comes from 

 the best of Jersey cows in one week when fed upon rye straw 

 alone. ''Feed the land and it will feed you'' to which end 

 orchard grass will be an important aid. Try it, farmers. 



JABEZ FISHER, Chairman, 



The field of improved grasses which I enter for premium 

 consists of three and one-half acres. The land was drained, 

 cultivated, and in favorable condition, when it was seeded with 

 barley and the allowing mixture of grass seeds, in the spring of 

 1879: 



Six bushels of orchard grass. 



