The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1874-01-01
MORE ABoUT ORCHARD GRASS.

To the Ealt@rs OF Moore's Rural New.
Yorker IL continue 10 receive INV mAin
inquiries concerning orchard grass. Hoping
70 answer All OF these. and to convince oil
that there is no raos that can compare With
orchard gfaes, | write yon the tot,oU.ng
short srtlcls. AS Fhnps DESCRIPTION oft il
better shan any can give, | will copy 1t
from his books
Orchard grass flowers ~ dense clusters
Il stem is erect. ahout three feet high.
hsvesfouni specimens, in good Satl over Ave
feet high. L'aven linear, f4t, dark greea,
rough on botn sides"
The co;or Is much agh er the first year or
two of its g'owlh hau when oluer. |, Is
never dark u en- niue grass, I have
bad farmers remark 10 me tina, they csu.d
Rot d. without clover. | say that no tara
ar can afford o he without orchard gresa
For pasture orchard grass l. worth about
twice as muca as clover. Que acre OF or
chara grass will afford as much pasture as
two OF clover, and cattle will latten faster
Oh IL. A very grave objection to clover, and
one which have never known so happen
with orchard grass, is that cattie frequently
eat TOO much OF IT, and sometimes die from,
the effecta thereof. For hay, there - moth
ing that know OF that can equal orchard
grass. Cover does not yield as much bv
about on bird anc I have always tound
more or less difficulty in selling clover hay
whereas | have never mad enough orchard
grass hay 10 supply the demand, the orchard
grass hay always selling for from 10 to 90
cents per 100 pounds more than the clover
hay.
By cutting orchard grass twice, it will
always yield enough more shan timothy TO
pay you hand ~omey for your trouble, and
then leave the land In better condition than
the timothy In sowing tor hay, prefer to
mix little clover with the orchard grass
MOI because think the orchard grass does
better when mixed with clover, as some
people imagine, bur because / thlnk mix
ture OF grasses will always make more hay
and think the hay is reltshed more bv
stock when mixed
Some people 20 so far as TO say that or
shaTd grass Is OF very little account, unless
1t is naked with clover made an expert
ment on a piece o! ground in which there
was no clover, and BY careful working killed
al grass. then, IN March. 1872, sowed two
bushels of orchard grass seed 10 me acre, By
itself; obtained fire SCI, and IN 1878 fret
cut fine crop OF seed from it, and then out
two good crops o. bay, af.er which consd-
cradle OF an aftermath came up, thus prov
ing 60 my shtis!ac ion a LEAST he iueor-
RICHNESS OF he theory that orchard grass
viii moi DO well alone What led Ia tins
theory was his THAT oreha rd grass al
ways does bvst on rich land and on r1h
land cloyer very ouen comes without seed
ing. while on poor land IL never does thus
seeing the two growing together on The rloh
spots. and he orchard grass looking better
there than nywnere else, they gave the
clover the credls ms cad at tue rich soil.
Il you wish % raise seed, you must sow Il
By itself. Orchard grass and timothy should
never be sown togel n"r az here is nearly
mouths d'fferenc" IN their time 81 maturity
To sum up The vho,c in lew words nv
experience and observation On orchard grass
has been 90 follows For pastnre. il has no
equal 10" hay, in quantity and qualitg IT,
cannot be exseltd and for seed no o her
grass is half as profitable as orchard grass.
Do not be di'appoin,"d with /, the frst
year Like many 81 our best grasses. it
takes two or three years 10 come 10 perfecs
lion, w. F. rALLAxr
Montgomery Co. Va.