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ECONOMY OF PASTURES. 



TJiird Mixture for Permanent Pasture. 



Pounds. 



Meadow Foxtail 2 



Orchard Grass, 6 



Hard Fescue, 1 



Tall Fescue 1 



Meadow Fescue, 2 



Redtop, 3 



June Grass, 4 



Italian Rye Grass, 8 



Perennial Rye Grass, 4 



Pound*. 



Timothy, 3 



Wood Meadow Grass, 2 



Rough-stalked Meadow Grass, . . 2 



Yellow Oat Grass, 2 



Tall Oat Grass, 3 



Perennial Clover, 2 



White Clover 5 



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If the cultivator desires to produce a close, matted 

 sward as soon as possible, no broad-leaved clover should 

 be used, and the above mixture will be quite sufficient 

 without the perennial clover. 



Though the above mixtures contain so many species, 

 it will be seen that the actual number of seeds sown is 

 far less than is customarily used ; and for any other use 

 than permanent pasture it is greater than need be used, 

 since the number of plants which this would give could 

 not grow and arrive at maturity, for want of space. In 

 pastures that are fed down, the growth does not usually 

 reach over five or six inches, often not that ; so that a 

 large number of seeds is required, and that of a large 

 number of species. 



It has already been said that a large number of spe- 

 cies will insure a much denser growth than the same 

 number of seeds of one or two species. It may also 

 be added that the dense growth of many species will 

 exhaust the ground less, since they live, to some 

 extent, upon different constituents. This is an impor- 

 tant practical point, which will in time be appreciated. 

 Pasture feeding is, unquestionably, far cheaper, under 

 ordinary circumstances, than stall feeding ; and the com- 

 plaint of exhausted and worn-out pastures in the older 



