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On light sandy soils number 4 would be a good selection, 

 and would be well adapted to the Rim counties as well as 

 to West Tennessee or that portion consisting of sandy soils. 

 Number 5 would come in on any portion of the State where 

 swampy lands that can be drained exist, and these lands are 

 plentiful, both on uplands and bottoms. This character of 

 land is exceedingly fertile when reclaimed from the coldness 

 of water, abounding in all the elements necessary to pro- 

 duce largely most excellent grass. Nunber 6 is intended 

 for those bottom lands not swampy, yet moist during most 

 of the winter months. There is a great quantity of land 

 on every creek and river in Tennessee lying on the flood 

 plateau, and ordinarily the meadows are so injured by 

 frequent overflows that the grass is either destroyed or 

 greatly injured. Number 7 will meet the indications on 

 these lands and survive any ordinary deposit of water. 

 Numbers 8 and 9 are intended to be sown on the hill lands 

 or mountain sides whose soil is full of gravel or rock. 

 These are mostly creeping grasses, and will run over and 

 hide large ledges of rock. 



' Clover is mixed with all the different numbers for the 

 especial purposes stated heretofore, and we think even if it 

 had no qualities as a hay grass, it should enter into every pas- 

 ture for its great fertilizing qualities. In ,the first few, or 

 New England groups, white clover is selected as one of 

 the constituents. We might safely leave that out, as it is 

 indigenous here and will spring up quickly on every pasture 

 and meadow in "clover years," as they are termed, for some 

 years it seems to disappear almost entirely, and then it cov- 

 ers the ground in the most unexpected manner every where. 

 This is not the case in New England, and there it must be 

 sown to get a stand. 



These assumptions are not to be taken without verifica- 

 tion by experiment, but are to be considered merely as the 

 opinion of one farmer given to another, but a careful course 

 of experiments could soon settle the question of the truth- 



