OEASS"ES FOR PASTURES AND MEADOWg. 'J'l 



variety, the hay from which amounted to more than 

 three tons, with 2,500 pounds of second growth hay. 

 Like timothy, this grass is most nutritious when the 

 seed is ripe. 



Cynosurus cristatus, crested dog's tail, is a: rery close 

 growing grass and makes a dense sod ; it does well upon 

 all kinds of soils, and especially upon irrigated or moist, 

 drained meadows. For lawns it is one of the most 

 Taluable of all the thick-growing fine-leaved kinds. It 

 is not very productive, but its late growth, being in 

 blossom in June and July, makes it valuable as affording 

 a succession of feed after the earlier kinds have been 

 cropped. It is strictly a pasture grass, and has many of 

 the valuable qualities of the Kentucky blue grass for 

 this purpose. 



Dactylis glomerata, the well known orchard grass, is 

 without exception the most valuable hay and pasture 

 grass for sowing alone. We have grown it upon good 

 sandy loam soil at the rate of 16,000 pounds per acre of 

 green herbage, and have seen it growing upon moist, low, 

 rich soil at least twice as dense as this, in appearance. 

 In England it has been known to yield nearly 28,000 of 

 green grass and 11,800 pounds of hay per acre, with 

 12,000 pounds of green aftermath. ' It thrives on all 

 kinds of soil, but does best in rich lowlands. We know 

 a field still as productive as at first, which was sown' 

 thirty years ago, and has produced hay and afforded full 

 pasture every year since, but has been liberally top 

 dressed every second year. The hay, cut when in blos- 

 som at the end of May, is sweet and palatable to horses 

 and cattle, and for cows there is no better pasture than 

 this in the aftermath. It does well under shade, and, 

 as its name implies, grows well in orchards and wood 

 lots. Its habit of growth, which is stooling and tufty, 

 is the only objection to it when grown alone, but when 

 sown with other kinds the vacant spaces are filled. 



