Show permanent pastures tures on practically all american farms the permanent pasture is neglected this is more mere true of the west even than ihan 0 oz the east it Is ra rather surprising to mid find it true in all of our dairy regions where wo we might mighty expect to see the permanent pasture fully appreciated where an effort is id male made to keep them up it too often stops rat at putting on a little manure and some clover and timothy seed or turning the sod over and sowing tol to blue grass timothy can call hardly be considered a very good gr grass alss for pastures unless the pasture is to be used f largely for horses and the c clover gane generally rally dies bjes out in a few years the blue grass proves good pasturage rager only under favorable f a conditions and ato proper per handling generally it does not prove to be a first class p pasture through the whole year bear it is desired to have a pasture that matures mature its grass at different seasons OUT oui great mistake seems to have been in sowing too fey varieties of grasses brasses is accentuated accentuate cl when desow two erthree or three varieties of grasses that mature at th the e same time these begin to growl grow at the same time and during flush of the season the animals revel in a superabundance or of good things but when the grasses have reached their maturity they begin to decline at once no new varieties are coming on oil to take the place of the varieties that tha arn decadence and tho the at vas pas burage negm nagin to reel tile the farmer then must begin feeding r or he will have to face a shrinkage 0 1 in n flesh of his tat cattle anda shrinkage of milk in his dairy cattle the prop or er way vay would ba to select grasses that mature at diff different erent times and that have their growth gr howth in different seasons and at different times timea this can be done uy sowing some very early and some very lato late grasses Among ithe grasses that it will be bb well to sow for the early growing grolln t we mention the rescues fes fos cues orchard grass and timothyy timo thys for foe those that have a late growing season V wye V name crested dog tall tail alsike alseike clover red clover and meadow fox foxtail tall to these may bo be added other valuable grasses that have been found to be goodan good in differ different ont farmers lengthy courtship the longest courtship on record was th that at of robert tayao postmaster at scarva ireland ho courted his is lady love lov e for fifty ye arsand years and married h her e r in 1872 when his ago yas was he in ID ills his year do many trees die at the roots iri in a discussion on hardy stocks at an illinois convention II 11 IL augustine declared that few trees died at the roots J L hartwell rl replied plied as follows V my impression is that mr augustine does not case from the fact that he does not know the conditions that mr thompson in northern illinois has to combat I 1 had 5 apple grafts crafts in the ground ranging ln from a yar old to three in that hard winter the following spring I 1 did not have a single live root not one I 1 suppose ta that j A t my scions came from stocks came from seed which came from france I 1 do not no t know I 1 bought them in iowa from a seedling grower apparently there was not a dead top to those trees when the frost came out of tile the ground in the spring L every one of tile the tops be began to grow without a single exception tow now 1 I 1 had hardy varieties of tops the atou trou bid with them wah that the roots wore were killed under tinder conditions that the tops would adt have been if the roots had been co correspondingly grespo as hardyns hardy as the top |