BLUE GRASS. 



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Wolff and Knop's analyses differ some from these, as will 

 be seen by referring to page 36. 



It will be seen from these tables that Blue Grass ranks 

 close up to the best and most popular hay grasses culti- 

 vated in Tennessee, and is about equal to sweet scented 

 vernal grass, which stands at the head of the pasture 

 grasses in the Eastern States, but is not really so productive 

 as the former. 



There is, in all pastures, a number of bare spots that 

 seem to resist the efforts of Blue Grass to sod. By mixing 

 other seeds with the Blue Grass, these spots can be made to 

 produce as well as other places. In a natural meadow, by 

 careful counting, several species are often found growing 

 intimately on every inch of earth. A table found elsewhere 

 details the result of an actual count, and it is there seen that 

 on a good natural pasture in one square foot of sod, there 

 were 1,000 plants, consisting of twenty distinct species. This 

 is nature's own arrangement, and may safely be copied. In 

 such a pasture not an inch of surface is unoccupied. It 

 may be thought an inch or two here and there, makes but lit- - 

 tie difference in the space occupied. But every blade of grass 

 is of some importance, and it is astonishing the aggregate 

 of these barren places. Below is a table of seeds that is 

 respectfully reoommended to those wishing to start a good 

 pasture. 



