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growth of June grass. Such land is always deep, rich, and valu- 

 able for many other crops. The forest trees in such sections of 

 the United States are usually large, tall, thick, abounding in 

 sugar maple, black walnut, hickory, white, black, and blue ashes, 

 red elm, black cherry, and burr oak. 



A Kentucky farmer says • " Whoever has lime-stone land has 

 blue grass; whoever has blue grass has the basis of all agricult- 

 ural prosperity, and that man, if he has not the finest horses, 

 cattle, and sheep has no one to blame but himself." 



Besides some portions of Kentucky, there are also a few counties 

 or parts of counties in Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana. 



It requires three years or more to become well established, and 

 on this account should not be sown for one or two crops of grass 

 or hay. 



Among the numerous plats of grasses, clovers, and other ex- 

 l)erimenta: plants of the Michigan Agricultural College, not one 

 is so persistently omnipresent as June grass The seeds push up 

 and make youii]!;, plants at all growing seasons of the year; these 

 cannot always be certainly detected until their tops appear. In 

 Michigan it is certainly a good fighter. The spreading so rapidly 

 by root stocks, and its tenacity of life, account for the fact that 

 it soon appears in pastures or old meadows when the other grasses 

 die out. June grass is not very often sown for pasture or meadow, 

 yet it abounds in most of our pastures, especially if they have not 

 been plowed for some time. 



Read Professor Phares as to its success in the South: " Ken- 

 tucky blue grass grows as well in most parts of the Gulf States 

 as in Kentucky or any otlier State. In tliese States this grass is 

 perennial and excellent for hay and grazing through a large part 

 of the year." 



In the famous experiments on meadow grasses by J. B. Lawes, 

 in England, Poa jjratensis on the permanently unmatured land 

 made a very poor fight, amounting to one-quartei of one per cent 



