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Prof. Lazenby: " Oh, no sir, not by any means. We have 

 been criticised for recommending timothy, but I say that a little 

 timothy put in with the other seeds is a very great advantage, 

 because it starts quickly and it seems to act as a shade for some 

 of the slower growing varieties, and if you keep your lawn cut 

 the timothy will never trouble you. We get a fine looking lawn 

 earlier by using timothy, and the other grasses seem to be helped 

 by it. Of course the chief requisite of a lawn grass is the ability 

 to produce its leaves rapidly. The leaf grows not at the tip, but 

 at the bottom of the leaf; of course this growth keeps pushing 

 the leaf forward and the end keeps advancing, but the growth 

 is really at the base. We want grass whose leaves will grow 

 readily and timothy is not one of those, that is it does not fulfill 

 that requisite as do many of the other varieties. 



I want to speak now of one or two of our grasses that are 

 very largely cultivated in some places of the south. Here is 

 one, the Johnson grass, a species of sorghum. It is a grass that 

 is being very widely cultivated in the southern states, and it is 

 quite highly recommended by some of our writers and experi- 

 menters in states pretty well north. It grows remarkably well, 

 and we have cut a larger weight from a given area from this 

 seed than of the grasses I have mentioned, but our cattle, sheep 

 and horses, don't seem to pass a very favorable judgment upon 

 it. Unless it is cut when it is quite green I think it will not 

 make a very good hay grass and while we have had no experi- 

 ence with it as a pasture grass, I question whether grass as 

 large as this will make a very successful pasture. It is injured 

 to a considerable extent by the winter. 



Question — " Would you advise a mixture of orchard grass 

 for pasture where we have rotation of crops and the pasture 

 lasts two or three years? " 



Prof. Lazenby : " Yes ; I think for that purpose orchard grass 

 does well, but it does better where you expect to let the ground 

 lay a little longer. Our experience has been that we get the 

 largest crop the fifth and sixth year after seeding in orchard 

 grass. I know some of our best farmers think well of orchard 



