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NUMBER, WEIGHT, COST OF GRASS SEEDS, AND AMOUNT TO SOW PER ACRE.

(Yearbook U. S. Dept. of Agriculture.)

[Columns 1, 2, 3, and 4 are compiled from "The Best Forage Plants," by Stebler and Schroeter. The figures in column 5 are obtained by multiplying the amount of standard quality of seed required (col. 2) by the retail price quoted in N. Y. catalogues. The weight of 10,000,000 grains (col. 6) is obtained by dividing this quantity by the number of seeds in one pound (col. 1).]

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NOTES ON ADAPTABILITY AND USES OF PRECEDING GRASSES AND CLOVERS.

No. 1. Requires moist climate or damp soil. Best propagated by transplanting small turf cuttings in autumn. Valuable for late pasturage or lawns in the New England and Middle States. Use 5-10 per cent in mixtures.

No. 2. Adapted to stiff, wet lands and flooded fields. Requires moisture. Valuable hay when cut young, and well suited for binding loose banks near running water or for forming a firm sod on marshy ground.

No. 3. Grows best on strongly calcareous soils. Well adapted for pasture, and makes a good bottom grass for meadows. An excellent lawn grass.

No. 4. Should be sown only on moist, fertile, and sheltered soils in mixtures.

No. 5. Light, dry soils, especially those which are poor, shallow, and silicious. Valuable bottom grass and for sheep pastures. Sown only in mixtures.

No. 6. Best on moist, low lands containing humus and sandy loams. Withstands drought; useful in pasture; unimportant for hay. Alone it makes no continuous turf.

No. 7. Valuable pasture or bottom grass. Withstands drought; endures both cold and shade. On poor land, especially moist sands and railway banks, serves to bind the soil. Product small.

No. 8. Valuable for light soils, especially in regions subject to extremes of heat or long periods of drought. Used alone or in mixtures for permanent meadows and pastures.

No. 9. Excellent and lasting pasture grass for heavy soils in moist, cool climates. On light, dry soils disappears after the second year. Rarely sown alone.

No. 10. Excellent for rich and rather moist lands. Regarded in Europe as one of the best for hay. Lasts only two or three years.

No. II. Grows well on any soil, excepting that which is very wet; withstands shade. Affords a large amount of aftermath. Valuable alike for hay and pasturage.

No. 12. Thrives in either dry or wet soils. Valuable hay or pasture grass.

No. 13. Thrives on moist, loamy sands or light clays which are not too moist, and marls. Spring most favorable seed-time. Valuable in the South for hay and winter pasture.

No. 14. Valuable for temporary or permanent pastures. Thrives on marly or calcareous soil, in all light land rich in humus.

No. 15. Sometimes sown on light, thin soils unsuited for more valuable sorts. Rarely used excepting in mix

tures.

No. 16. Best known and most extensively cultivated for hay. Sown alone or mixed with redtop or clover. Succeeds best on moist loams or clays. On dry ground the yield is light.

No. 17. Endures cold. Likes strong soil, stiff loam, or clay. One of the best grasses for land under irrigation. Very early. Two to four pounds in mixtures for permanent pastures.

No. 18. Grows on almost any kind of soil; sown only in mixtures, I to 2 pounds, with permanent pasture or meadow grasses.

No. 19. Especially adapted for loams, light clays, marls, and moist, loamy sands. Moist climates are most suitable. Withstands drought and thrives well in shade. Nutritive value high. Used in mixtures to form bottom grass either

in pasture or hay.

No. 20. Grows on strongest clay or peaty soil; peculiarly adapted to damp ground. Bears heavy frosts without injury. Sown in August or February.

No. 21. Requires good and open subsoil, free from water. Sown alone, from end of March to beginning of May.

No. 22. Succeeds best in rich, loamy soil, on good clays, and on soils of an alluvial nature. A standard fodder plant.

No. 23. Thrives on mellow land containing lime, and on all soils rich in humus. Resists drought. Generally used in mixtures for pastures or lawns.

No. 24. Cultivated for grazing; on warm soils, if manure

and of proper depth. Hardy; resists drought. Sheep, goats, and horned cattle eat it greedily.

No. 25. Grows well on any calcareous soil having a permeable subsoil. Especially adapted to the warm and dry regions of the West and Southwest. Requires irrigation.

No. 26. Any soil containing sufficient moisture and lime is suitable. Most successful on clay marls. Cultivated only where the better kinds of clover cannot be grown.

No. 27. Thrives on dry or moist, sandy or clayey soils. Well suited to dry lands at high elevations, though poor. No. 28. Excellent fodder plant for warm, sheltered situations. Thrives only in deep soil, and when subsoil is not

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