274 



NUMBER OP PLANTS. 



pounds of clover, which is below the average quantity 

 used, we shall find by the same process that we have 

 over 1,000,000 seeds. If now we add these sums 

 together, we shall find that we have put upon the acre 

 no less than 95,000,000 seeds ! This gives about fifteen 

 seeds to the square inch, or about 2,000 seeds to the 

 square foot ! 



Again, one of the most intelligent farmers in the 

 country, a practical man, uses five pecks of redtop and 

 twelve quarts of Timothy to the acre for mowing, lands, 

 and an addition of five pounds of white clover for pas- 

 tures, making no less than 124,000,000 seeds per acre. 

 There must be, evidently, an enormous waste of seed, 



Table X. — Average Number of Plants and Species 

 TO THE Square Foot of Sward. 



CHARACTER Or THE TUEF. 



1. A square foot taken from the richest nat- 



ural pasture, capable of fattening one 

 large ox or three sheep to the acre, was 

 found to contain 



2. Bich old pasture, capable of fattening 



one large ox and three sheep per acre; 



3. Another old pasture contained .... 



4. An old pasture of a damp, moist, and 



mossy surface, 



5. A good pasture, two years old, laid down 



to rye grass and white clover, .... 



6. A sod of narrow-leaved meadow grass (Poa 



angustifolia), six years old 



7. A Bod of meadow foxtail by itself, six 



years old, 



8. Bye grass by itself, same age 



9. Meadow, irrigated and carefully managed. 



20 



12 



8 



2 



1 



1 

 1 



