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(2) Do not sow anything but clean seed. Examine for noxious seeds 



with a magnifying glass. 



(3) Do not sow when the' soil is very dry and cloddy. 



(4) Do not cover the seeds to a greater depth than one-fourth of an inch. 



When covered 2 inches very few, if any, will germinate. 



(5) Do not pasture a timothy meadow at any time; the destruction of the 



bulbous roots will soon exterminate the grass. 



(6) Do not cut the grass below the first joint. 



(7) Do not forget that blue-grass is the arch enemy of a timothy meadow. 



Therefore never permit stock from a blue grass pasture to roam 

 over a timothy meadow. 



(8) Do not fail to exterminate all bunches of "broom-sedge" and all 



"yellow dock" that may appear in the meadow during the sum- 

 mer. Never let these go to seed. 



(9) Above all do not forget to top dress your meadow with suitable 



manure in the fall of the year and with superphosphate in the 

 spring. Feed your meadow and it will feed you. 



HERD'S GRASS, RED TOP. FINE BENT, FIORIN, (Agrostis alba 



or Agrostis vulgaris.} (Pasture and Meadow.) 



Recent botanical investigations have determined the fact that herd's 

 grass is greatly modified by climate, soil and situation. The most appro- 

 priate name for it is probably agrostis polymorpha, on account -of the 

 many forms which it assumes when subjected to different conditions. By 



whatever name it may be des- 

 ignated in various localities it 

 is one of the most useful agri- 

 cultural grasses of the south. 

 It will grow upon every soil, 

 and will give more general 

 satisfaction to the farmer than 

 any other grass. It is scat- 

 tered over the whole state of 

 Tennessee. The writer has 

 seen it growing luxuriantly 

 upon the hightest mountains 

 of East Tennessee, as well as 

 in the deepest valleys; on the 

 sandstone soil of the Cumber- 

 land table-land, and upon the 

 cherty soils 'of the highland 

 rim. It sparkles in the beauty 

 of its verdure on the lime- 



3. ^K ' stone soils of the central basin 



and acquires its largest 

 Herd's Grass, Red Top- Agrostis alba. growth in the sandy river and 



2. Panicle. 3. Spikelet. 4. Empty glumes. creek basing of Wegt T ennes _ 



5. Flowering glume. * 1 



see. There is no place in 

 Tennessee in which it does not prove a profitable grass to the farmers. 



