CATALOGUE OF GRASS SEEDS. 
47 
Alternate Husbandry. 
MIXTURES FOR MOWING AND GRAZING LANDS. 
As the pioneers of grass mixtures in this country, we naturally have great pleasure in learning from day to day and 
reason to season that our remarks under the heading, “ Mixtures for Permanent Pastures,” are fast becoming universally 
admitted facts; and we predict, with confidence, that the time is not far distant when the practice of sowing only one or 
two varieties of grass seeds with the hope of obtaining the best results from it will pass, and the better and more profitable 
one of following nature’s plan be adopted. 
Many of our statements regarding Permanent Pasture Mixtures are equally pertinent when applied to Alternate 
Husbandry. It does not require much thought to convince any practical agriculturist that there is no basis to a system 
that employs the same quantity and kinds of grass seeds on all occasions, without regard to soil, duration of lay, or the 
condition in which the crop is to be used. All mixtures for Alternate Husbandry should include, say for one or two years’ 
lay, only annual and biennial or other sorts that attain full maturity within that period; for two or three years’ lay a greater 
quantity of seed is required, which should embrace a larger proportion of permanent sorts, so that the places of the dead 
annual kinds may be filled by the varieties that are of slower growth. 
If a mixture, principally for mowing, is intended to lay more than three or four years, especial care is necessary in 
selecting and adjusting the several varieties of grasses in proper proportion. A three or four years’ lay sown with grasses 
that are only of annual or biennial duration must be either very thin or foul at the end of the period for which it was 
laid down — the spaces vacated by the annual and biennial grasses being in all likelihood occupied by objectionable weeds, 
when, if a proper selection of those species capable of lasting the whole of the desired period were sown, the lay would 
remain full of plants, free from weeds, and, consequently, much more profitable during the whole time the land is in 
grass. 
The practice of mowing grass for hay when the plants are in blossom is acknowledged to be a good one, in that it is 
not so exhausting to the soil, and a more succulent hay, freer from dust, is obtained; it has, however, from the fact that 
all natural reseeding is prevented, a tendency to weaken the plants and reduce their number; hence when we see an old 
field of grass that was originally sown with Timothy, Redtop, and Clover, and which has been mowed, perhaps, twice 
annually, we can readily account for either the enormous number of weeds or vacant places that are sure to be noticeable. 
Our system of mixtures practically overcomes this difficulty by the continued growth and stooling out of some of the varieties 
included that do not attain full maturity undet four to six years. Such mixtures, although in the first place more expensive 
than the ordinary orthodox seeding, are in the end more profitable; we have seen aftermaths from permanent mowing 
mixtures that more than equaled first crops of Timothy. 
In making up the following tables the utmost care has been exercised, and we have no hesitation in recommending 
them to our patrons. 
BRECK’S SPECIAL MIXTURES FOR MOWING AND GRAZING LANDS. 
X OR 2 
years’ mowing. 
2 OR 3 years' mowing 
OR GRAZING. 
4 years’ mowing 
OR GRAZING. 
PERMANENT MOWING WITH 
OCCASIONAL GRAZING. 
No. 5 . 
No. 6. 
No. 7 . 
No. 8. 
No. 9 . No. IO. 
No. 11 . 
No. 12 . 
No. 13 . 
No. 14 . No. 15 . No. IO. 
Ught 
Medium 
Heavy 
L»g ht 
Medium 
Heavy 
Light 
Medium 
Heavy 
Li^ht 
M ccLum 
Heavy 
Soils. 
Soils. 
Soils. 
Soils. 
Soil 3. 
Soilb. 
Soils. 
Soils. 
Soils. 
Soils. 
Soils. 
Soils. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
lbs. 
Italian Rye Grass . 
6 
6 
6 
4 
4 
4 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
3 
Perennial Rye Grass . 
4 
4 
5 
5 
5 
6 
5 
6 
7 
6 
6 
7 
Cocksfoot . 
4 
3 
3 
6 
5 
5 
8 
6 
6 
9 
7 
7 
Meadow Foxtail . 
— 
1 
2 
2 
2 
3 
3 
2 
3 
3 
Hard Fescue . 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
2 
1 
2 
2 
2 
Blue Grass . 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
2 
3 
3 
Red Top . 
2 
2 
3 
2 
2 
3 
3 
4 
4 
3 
3 
3 
Wood Meadow . 
— 
— 
— 
— 
1 
1 
Rough-stalked Meadow . 
— 
— 
— 
— 
— 
1 
2 
3 
1 
2 
2 
Meadow Fescue . 
'A 
ll A 
2 
i'A 
2 
2 
2 
3 
4 
2 
4 
4 
Sweet Vernal . 
y 2 
A 
A 
A 
K 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
1 
Timothy . 
7 
9 
9 
7 
9 
9 
3 
4 
4 
2 
3 
3 
Red Clover . 
7 
8 
8 
4 
5 
5 
— 
— 
Perennial Red Clover . 
— 
4 
5 
5 
2 
2 
3 
Alsike Clover. 
i 
I 
2 
2 
2 
2 
1 
1 
2 
1 
1 
White Clover. 
— 
— 
2 
''A 
l A 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
2 
33 
35 
3 « 
35 
38 
40 
38 
4 i 
44 
1 40 
43 
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