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their pastures are "run out?" Simply because they have 

 failed to feed them. Because year after year they have 

 taken off ton after ton of hay without returning a single 

 pound of plant food. 



The preparation of land for a meadow is so nearly the 

 same as that given for a pasture that it need not be re- 

 peated. The grasses specially adapted to the meadow are, 

 however, quite different from those given for the pasture. 

 Timothy, which stands at the head of the meadow grasses, 

 is altogether unfit for the pasture, because it will neither 

 bear tramping nor close cropping. 



There are, however, many most excellent grasses to be se- 

 lected for the meadow. In making this selection it is of 

 exceeding importance to note the time of flowering, and 

 care should be taken not to have in the meadow, grasses 

 that ripen at different times, for if this is allowed really 

 good hay cannot be made. Part of the hay is obliged to be 

 cut either too green or too ripe. It is always desirable to 

 have more than one meadow, and so arranged that they 

 ghall ripen in succession. This point is readily gained by 

 selecting for the different meadows, grasses that ripen in 

 succession. 



For convenience and as a help we give a list of the 

 grasses that experience has proved to be well adapted to the 

 pasture. These lists are given more as suggestions than as 

 guides or recipes. After all, each farmer must exercise his 

 own judgment as to what grasses are best suited to his pur- 

 poses, and best adapted to his soils. 



The labors of Professor Way and other chemists were 

 chiefly of value in explaining certain facts long noted by 

 observing farmers concerning the relations of the grasses 

 and soils. Long before any attempt at chemical analysis of 

 the soil or the grasses had been made, it was well known 

 to the best farmers that certain grasses were admirably 



