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it will be much more vigorous and productive 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 different 
grass; then they will eat the orchard grass very 
