MANAGEMENT OF MEADOWS. 239 



MANAGEMENT OF MEADOWS 



CONCERNING MANURES. 



PART V". 



CHAPTEE XX. 



MEADOWS AND PASTURES — THEIR PREPARATION — DRAIN- 

 AGE — SELECTION OF SEEDS — TIME OF SOWING — CUT- 

 TING, CURING AND SAVING HAY — MANAGEMENT AND 

 IMPROVEMENT OF MEADOWS — MANURES AND MANNER 

 OF APPLICATION. 



Meadows exist in various sections of the State to a lim- 

 ited extent, and it being the object of this work to foster 

 this branch of agriculture, the best plans for encouraging 

 and treating them will be discussed. The subject requires no 

 argument to encourage it, as every right-thinking man will 

 see at a glance the great importance of growing more hay. 

 It is, in the observation of every one, that vast amounts of 

 baled hay are brought by rail and river from those States 

 already embarked in the cultivation of grasses. While we 

 have the best climate in the Uuited States for this purpose, 

 as already stated, we have a soil unparalleled for fertility^ 

 and well suited to almost all the varieties of grasses des- 

 cribed, and, besides, being on the border of the cotton 

 States, we have a market at our doors for our surplus. We 



