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Show VALUE OF GRASS SEEDS. Prof. Brewer, of Yale university, in a lecture, said: Vlt is believed that permanent pastures, if well handled, continue to grow better for fifty or 'a hundred years; some say for much longer than that. It is neary forty years since I was in England, but I well remember that English farmers told me that a Dasture of , meadow had to be at V least twenty-five years old to be ? good, and was not really excellent until the third or fourth rental (forty-two or sixty-three years) at least. There waa no other one feature in English scenery which bo impressed me -as' the English turf, whether seen in either tlif pastures or the iarka and lawns Many of the parks are, in fac pastures.- One sees sheep . everywhere. every-where. Even 011 the playgrouud of the colleges and Kciiool oue see. flocks of sheep, kept there for th benefit of the turf. . When Oou necticiii public opinion shall protect pro-tect sheep on the Yale athletic field from the dogs,' then will the State of" Connecticut be able to m-.iw rnnrft of thd mutton which it . no v consumes, . and the state be richer by very, many millions of dollars. . Many a hillside, now half-barren, will : then ' be green with turf, and the mutton on our tables will be better, and cheaper. "The beauty of the turf on old English lawns excites the admiration admira-tion of all Americans who go there. "When' I visited the experiment station' carried on by Lawes & Gilbert, Gil-bert, the plots of , grass .used to test the effect of fertilizers oil.' the relative abundance of the different s'pecieswas taken from' the lawn. 'We ''do not know how long it has Vbeen established, they told us; 'we know, however, that there has i neither plow nor spade in it for rover 400 years, and it was, therefore, there-fore, old enough for our purpose.' .It is not easy for us Americans to i appreciate such a fact When Co-ilum Co-ilum bus started on his voyage of discovery, that lawn , was already , long established." , |