. Annual descriptive catalogue : seeds & Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. CATALOGUE OF GRASS SEEDS. 45. SHEEP'S FESCUE MEADOW FOXTAIL CRESTED DOGSTAIL (Festuca Ovina) (Alopecurus pratensis) (Cynosurus Cristatus) MIXTURES FOR PERMANENT PASTURES. " One thi?ig is certain: that good pasture land is the foundation of the riches of a farm "—Sinclair. The oft-repeated complaints of wornout and exhausted pastures, made to us by some of our best New England farmers, have long impressed us
. Annual descriptive catalogue : seeds & Nursery stock Massachusetts Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs. CATALOGUE OF GRASS SEEDS. 45. SHEEP'S FESCUE MEADOW FOXTAIL CRESTED DOGSTAIL (Festuca Ovina) (Alopecurus pratensis) (Cynosurus Cristatus) MIXTURES FOR PERMANENT PASTURES. " One thi?ig is certain: that good pasture land is the foundation of the riches of a farm "—Sinclair. The oft-repeated complaints of wornout and exhausted pastures, made to us by some of our best New England farmers, have long impressed us with the fact that there mu»t be something radically wrong with the manner in which our pastures are formed and cared for. Some remedy for this state of matters is imperatively necessary, and it seems to us that one most important line of improvement would be the sowing of a larger number of species of grasses in the laying out of these pastures. As we have already expressed as our opinion, farmers, as a rule, in preparing their mixtures of grasses to be used in the laying down of permanent pastures, confine themselves to too few varieties, thus failing to arrive at the most profitable results. The chief properties which give value to a grass are nutritive powers, produce, early growth, and reproductiveness (that is, the property of growing rapidly after being cropped). If one species of grass could be discovered that possessed all these qualities in a superior degree to every other, there would be no necessity beyond that of botanical science ior us to acquire the knowledge which enables us to distinguish the different species of grasses, the soils and subsoils best adapted to their growth, natural habits, and compara- tive value; but the results of all experiments have proven that a combination of all the merits and properties which giv-i value to a grass is not to be found in any single species, or in fact in any two or three. In sowing a mixture of a number of different
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