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it will be much more vigorous and productiA'e than 

 before it was plowed. 



This is a most practicable scheme that deserves 

 wide application. There is plenty of profit in good 

 pasture. England is a land of grass and grazing; 

 there is found more profit in grazing than in grain 

 growing. The same conditions are rapidly ap- 

 proaching in America. Millions of acres of our best 

 lands will be laid down in permanent pastures be- 

 cause of the failure of the pastures of the West and 

 the advancing prices of beef, mutton and horses. 

 Then should be remembered that the way to stimu- 

 late bluegrass is to associate with it a legume, and 

 alfalfa seems the best one for that purpose on the 

 best soils. It is very easy to get a stand of alfalfa 

 on a bluegrass sod. One can plow, disk, sow the 

 seed, harrow and the thing is done, though it will be 

 safer to sow some inoculating soil with the seed and 

 immensely profitable to sow some phosphorus with 

 it as well. 



Lime usually helps bluegrass and carbonate of 

 lime or unburned ground limestone is the best sort 

 of lime to choose when it is to be had. 



Alfalfa and Orchard Grass. — Orchard grass grows 

 well with alfalfa and the mixture of the two makes 

 much forage and good hay. It is not so palatable 

 a grass as brome grass, but is easily established and 

 really its forage is better than men believe. When 

 using orchard grass pasture animals should not at 

 the same time have run of a pasture of a diiferent 

 grass; then they will eat the orchard grass very 



