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On moist i)laces it runs to tufts. Xo grass does bettor in the 

 sliailo tlian this, and none gives so quick a second growth, or so 

 strong aftermath. With me it ripens precisely with rod clover, 

 and I always sow them together. Clover and orchard grass I 

 sow together in tlio spring, using 13 pounds of clover and two 

 bushels of orchard grass per acre." 



L. F. Allen, of Buffalo, New York, approves of a favoralde 

 article in tho New York Tribune, saying: "I have had it in 

 continuous moving and pasturage for upwards of forty years 

 without disturbing it. Ac r. market hay, I admit that Timothy is 

 more sal.ible, because town's people do not know the value of the 

 orchard grass, which is just as good fur any kind of animal." 



In the Country Gentleman for 188;}, tho same man of wide 

 experience and observation, remarks: " AVh}' it is that farmers 

 are so dull in the use of orchard grass, jiasses my comprehension, 

 when, on a single trial of its virtues, mixed with red clover when 

 sown, equal in proportion for a hay crop, it is better for any class 

 of stock than Timothy." 



The late Hon. George Geddes, of Xew York, said: **It is a 

 very valuable grass, but unless thickly sown it is inclined to grow 

 in tussocks or bunches." 



T. A. Colo, Madison Co., Now York, in JYew Yorh Triltine, 

 remarks : 



"After twenty years of experience, I have settled down upon 

 orchard grass as possessing greater merits than any other, for 

 both i)asture and meadoAv, for fattening animals or for dairy 

 stock. When cut for hay, just before its bloom, and cured with 

 as little sun as possible, it will make more milk tlian any other 

 variety known to me ; if left to ripen it is worthless. When 

 sown thick enough it does not grow in tussocks and Avill croAvd 

 out white daisies, and in live or six years I have seen it crowd 

 out quack-grass. Hundreds of farmers in this region are raising 

 it, and in every instance cons'.der it superior as a forage plant.*' 



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