ILLUSTRATIONS 



Mowing the Lawn .... Frontispiece 



1. Percentage of Improved Land Devoted to Hay and 



Forage. (Compiled from Census of igoo) . . 3 



2. Grain (Including Cow-peas) Cut Green for Hay. 



Each dot represents 10,000 acres. (Compiled from 

 Census of 1900) ....... 10 



3. Wild, Salt, and Marsh Grasses Cut for Hay. Each 



dot represents 10,000 acres. (Compiled from Cen- 

 sus of igoo) 13 



4. Haying Scene in Nova Scotia 35 



5. Rake for Moving Hay-cocks to Stack .... 37 



6. Hay-stack Made too Flat 38 



7. Hay-derrick in Common Use in Utah ... 39 



8. Quack-grass {Agropyron repens). A bad weed in the 



Northern States 50 



g. Production of Grass-seed in the United States. (Com- 

 piled from Census of 1900.) Each dot represents 

 10,000 bushels. Three counties not shown on the 

 map;. each produce approximately 10,000 bushels 

 of grass-seed; they are Linn County, Oregon; 

 Rock Bridge County, Virginia; and Salem County, 



New Jersey 57 



10. Seeds of Standard Grasses, a, Meadow-fescue; i, 

 English Rye-grass; c, Italian Rye-grass; d, Tim- 

 othy; e, Redtop in the chaff;/", Redtop, chaff re- 

 moved; g, Rhode Island Bent; k. Orchard-grass. 

 (G. H. Hicks, Year-book, Department of Agricul- 

 ture, i8g8) 58 



