Show HOW MANY SEEDS IN POUND United States Department of Agriculture Agriculture Agriculture ture Makes Count of Number in Various Kinds Kinds of Grasses Counts to determine the relation between the number of grass seeds to the pound and the number of pounds required per acre to assure a good stand of ot grass have been made by the United States Department of ot ture In general the seeded fine grasses require fewer pounds of seed to the acre than do the seeded coarse-seeded varieties The he work of the department shows that timothy on the average has 1200 seeds In a n pound Kentucky blue bluegrass bluegrass bluegrass grass has hns and Redtop while Sudan grass has only 50 50 Orchard grass has Canada Canada Can Can- ada blue grass tall meadow grass meadow fescue foxtail millet sheep's fescue red fescue seeds Italian rye grass perennial rye grass and Bermuda Bermuda Ber Der muda grass Timothy usually Is seeded at the rate of or 15 pounds to the acre Kentucky Kentucky Ken Ken- tuc tucky blue glass 14 U to 18 pounds Redtop 10 pounds and Bermuda grass 5 G pounds Orchard grass gras Is usually sown at the rate of ot 23 25 pounds to the acre Canada blue grass 15 pounds and tall meadow oat grass 40 pounds Meadow fescue requires 25 pounds to the acre foxtail millet 12 to 25 pounds sheep's fescue 28 pounds and red fescue 30 pounds Italian rye e grass I Is In sown at the rate of ot 30 SO to 40 pounds per pel acre perennial perennial perennial peren peren- nial rye grass gruss 30 pounds and Sudan g grass 12 to 21 2 pounds per acre There Ther arc some distinct species species species cies of cultivated and wild gra grasses ses In Inthe inthe the world but only about 20 of ot these are of ot importance In ID the United States |