GRASS GROWING FOR PROFIT 
Approximately sixty millions of tons of timothy 
hay are grown every year in the United States on 
about forty millions of acres of meadow-land. Be- 
ginning at the seaboard and going west, the chief 
hay-producing states are: New York, Pennsylvania, 
Missouri, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wiscon- 
sin, Iowa and Kansas. New York alone has nearly 
five millions of acres on which is produced upwards 
of six millions of tons of hay. These ten states, 
which may be said to constitute the Hay Belt of the 
United States, have a total of 30,000,000 acres on 
which were lately grown 45,000,000 tons of hay. 
These figures are mentioned to show the magnitude 
of our grass-growing industry. Of course, grass is 
grown more or less extensively in all of the states, 
but the states mentioned are the leaders and produce 
the great bulk of our annual crop of timothy hay. 
Timothy and related grasses feed heavily on Ni- 
trogen; they are able to transform it completely into 
wholesome and digestible animal food. When full 
rations of plant food are present a good crop of grass 
will remove about the equivalent of two of the active 
fertilizer ingredients of 150 pounds of Nitrate of 
Soda and 150 pounds of phosphate. These amounts 
are recommended to be applied per acre as top- 
dressing for old grass lands where grass fertiliza- 
tion is well understood and practiced. Grass lands 
get sour easily, especially when very old, and 
when they do, one ton of lime per acre may be har- 
rowed in before seeding down anew. The seeding 
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