MEADOWS AND PASTURES 47. 
for a considerable portion of the season of possible pas- 
ture. Whether the trouble lies with the farmer or with 
the mixtures it is not possible to say. Both are prob- 
ably to blame—the farmer for not giving the mixtures 
a more extended trial, and the mixtures for not giving 
better results when they are tried. Usually, when the 
American farmer wakes up tothe fact that he is not 
getting sufficient income from his pastures, he aban- 
dons the use of pastures as much as possible instead of 
trying to make them productive enoughto pay. There 
is room for a lot of demonstration work on this subject 
at the experiment stations. The methods used in 
Europe ought to be givena thorough trialhere. Until 
this is done a good many people will always believe 
that the productiveness of English grass-lands could be 
duplicated here. There are some parts of the country 
in which blue-grass and Bermuda grass are quite satis- 
factory as pasture. There are many places where they 
are not. The use of brome-grass and alfalfa as a pas- 
ture mixture is mentioned elsewhere in these pages. 
This mixture deserves a fair trial over all parts of the 
timothy region where blue-grass is not highly pro- 
ductive. Mixtures of timothy, redtop, orchard-grass, 
tall fescue (the kind grown in Eastern Kansas), blue- 
grass, Canada blue-grass, and the clovers, including 
alfalfa, deserve to be tried extensively all over the 
northern half of the country for permanent pasture. 
Until this is more generally done it is impossible to 
state what the result would be. The writer believes a 
mixture of all the above varieties named would furnish 
more pasture in many parts of the country than the 
common mixtures do. 
