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JOSEPH BRECK & SONS 
(Corporation) 
BRECK’S SPECIAL MIXTURES FOR PERMANENT PASTURES. 
Table showing’ the proper quantities to Sow on an Acre of Light , Medium or Heavy Soils, for Permanent Pasture. 
Kind. 
No. 1. 
Light Soils. 
No. a. 
Medium 
Soils. 
No 3. 
Heavy Soils. 
No. 4. 
For Orchard* 
and shady 
places. 
Timothy . • % . 
Phleum pratense 
2 
lbs. 
3 lb s. 
4 lbs. 
3 lb s. 
Red Top . • , . 
Agrostis vulgaris 
4 
tt 
4 “ 
6 44 
- 3 “ 
Orchard Grass , 
Dactylis glomerata . 
8 
u 
6 44 
4 “ 
6 44 
Meadow Fescue . 
Festuca pratensis 
2 
tt 
2 44 
1 U 44 
— 
Hard Fescue 
Festuca duriuscula . 
— 
I 44 
2 44 
2 44 
Tall Fescue 
Festuca elatior .... 
2 
it 
2 “ 
4 44 
I 44 
Blue Grass .... 
Poa pratensis .... 
4 
it 
4 “ 
2 44 
5 44 
Rough Stalked Meadow . 
Poa trivialis .... 
it 
2 44 
4 “ 
6 44 
Perennial Rye Grass . 
Lolium perenne 
2 
it 
3 “ 
3 “ 
— 
Meadow Foxtail 
Alopecuris pratensis. 
i 
a 
2 44 
2 44 
2 44 
Crested Dogstail 
Cynosurus cristatus . 
2 
a 
I 44 
1 44 
4 44 
Wood Meadow . 
Poa nemoralis .... 
I 
a 
I 44 
— 
Yellow Oat Grass 
Arena flavescens 
2 
it 
I 44 
— 
— 
Sweet Vernal 
Anthoxanthum odoratum . 
2 
u 
I 44 
— 
- 
White Clover 
Trifolium repens . . 
4 
tt 
4 “ 
4 “ 
5 44 
Alsike Clover 
44 hybridum 
I 
u 
i 44 
w 
Perennial Red Clover 
44 pratense perenne 
2 
tt 
3 “ 
3 “ 
3 “ 
For prices of special mixtures see page 
39 
;bs. 
41 lbs. 
41 lbs. 
40 lbs. 
ALTERNATE HUSBANDRY. 
Mixtures for Mowing and Crazing Lands a 
As the pioneers of grass mixtures in this country, we naturally have great pleasure in learning from day to day and 
season to season that our remarks under the heading “ Mixtures for Permanent Pastures” are fast becoming uni 
versally 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 ^eed 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 ex¬ 
hausting 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 enor¬ 
mous number of weeds or vacant places that are sure to be notice¬ 
able. Our system of mixture practically overcomes this difficulty by 
the continued growth and stooling out of some of the varieties in¬ 
cluded that do not attain full maturity under four to six years. Such 
mixtures, although in the first place more expensive than the ordin¬ 
ary 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 have no hesitation in recommending them to our 
patrons. 
Lucerne Clover, 
See Special Offers on third page of cover 
