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is killed by too closé cropping. In the Middle South 
a good meadow of the ordinary grasses, such as tim- 
othy, orchard-grass, fescue, and redtop, should never 
be pastured at all, and a Bermuda-grass meadow must 
not be pastured late in the fall. If it is, it is liable to 
freeze out. Johnson grass will not stand pasturing to 
any extent. If pastured at all closely it becomes 
patchy. 
