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Updated: May 3, 2025
"Redtop, he ain't got no appetite these days," grinned Denver, as the gentleman mentioned cleaned up a second loaded plate of ham, eggs and fried potatoes. "I see him studying a Wind River Bible* yesterday. Curious how in the spring a young man's fancy gits to wandering on house furnishing. Red, he was taking the catalogue alphabetically.
So we find the same young ladies in the present story, still indulging in their favorite pastime getting into and out of mischief. They had been out riding on an improvised chariot a hayrick of the old-fashioned kind, like a cradle, filled with the fragrant timothy and redtop, when the accident, narrated in the first chapter, took place.
ENGLISH BENT, known also by a number of other names, is largely cultivated in some sections. It closely resembles redtop, but may be distinguished from it by the roughness of the sheaths when the hand is drawn from above downward. It possesses about the same qualities as redtop. MEADOW FESCUE is one of the most common of the fescue grasses, and is said to be the Randall grass of Virginia.
"It is not so easy as it looks, and it makes my arm hurt," said the boy soberly; "but Redtop said that I would do." "Um," grunted the old man with an unsmiling face, the while laughing to himself. He worked on. After a time he said, "The little thing you shoot with, your bow did you bring it?" "Oh, yes!" "Well, I will make a little stone head for the stick."
Timothy is more resistant to acidity than red clover, but often fails to make a heavy sod where the deficiency in lime is marked. Rhode Island Bent, known as redtop, is less exacting, and where it thrives to the exclusion of timothy, or is in evidence in grass lands, the inference is fairly safe that a test would show that the soil is sour. When Production Decreases.
Still the bowlder would not chip, and his arm was ready to drop off. At last Redtop said, "Enough for to-day! You will do." Thorn threw down his stones with a shout and ran to his grandfather. Old Flint sat at work under a big beech tree. At his side there was a little pile of bowlders, and about him there were chips of flint. "Well," he said, as he looked up at the boy, "how is stone work?"
Among the grasses found on cultivated lands in this country, the following are considered as among the most valuable for ordinary farm cultivation; some of them being adapted to pastures, and others almost exclusively to mowing and the hay-crop: Timothy, Meadow Foxtail, June or Kentucky Blue Grass, Fowl Meadow, Rough-stalked Meadow, Orchard Grass, Perennial Rye Grass, Italian Rye Grass, Redtop, English Bent, Meadow Fescue, Tall Oat Grass, Sweet-scented Vernal, Hungarian Grass, Red Clover, White or Dutch Clover, and some others.
Redtop worked fast and easily, and after some time held up a beautiful ax. It was broad at the sharp end and narrow at the head. Thorn saw the little places all over it where the chips had come off. He looked at it and laughed, and then sat down and tried to do what Redtop had done. He struck with his hammer stone, but the bowlder did not chip. He worked on and on, for a very, very long time.
A mixture of timothy, redtop and weeds was cut for hay on No. 6, the yield being better than half a ton per acre. The apples were a fair crop, and the total sales from that crop amounted to $750, but about half of this had been expended for trimming and spraying the trees, a spraying outfit, barrels, picking, packing, freight and cold storage. A good bunch of hogs were sold. Another year passed.
Three men sat on the ground at work. Other men sat about talking. Pointing to these, Flint said, "They are waiting to buy axes." There were piles of bowlders on the ground, and little piles of stone chips around each ax maker. Flint went up to one of them and said, "Redtop, my boy wants to make axes. Show him how." Redtop grinned at Thorn, and threw him a smooth oval bowlder.
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