324 FORAGE CROPS 
of added fertility, or of drainage, or in cleaning 
the land of foreign growths. Experience has 
shown that pastures may be very materially im- 
proved, and at slight expense, if careful plans 
are made and a definite system of treatment is 
laid out and practiced. In the preparation of the 
land, and seeding, the suggestions already made 
for meadows may follow, except that many 
grasses will serve as pasture that are not so well 
adapted for hay; besides, the objections made to 
mixtures for hay do not hold good for pastures, 
as the, farmer uses them for his own stock rather 
than offers them for sale. 
Seed mixture 
The following mixture of grasses and clovers 
will probably answer quite as well as any other, 
in the seeding down of pastures, as the variety 
of grasses is such as to insure a thick sward, 
as well as to provide for both early and late 
grazing: 
TIMOthy soc. Sly Be te we a ee & We 3 pounds 
Orchard grass: s 354% «i we we ws 2 pounds 
Red-tOp ss eae 4 ee ee ewe ewe 6 2 pounds 
Kentucky blue-grass. .........4. 2 pounds 
Italian rye-grass. 2. 2... 1... we eae 1 pound 
Meadow fescue ........ . «. . 2 pounds 
R6GGlOVER | oa ke Be ww 4 pounds 
Whiteclover .........502 806 2 pounds 
