. Circular. Gramineae -- United States; Forage plants -- United States. 3 Perennial weeds, such as golden-rod, iron-weed, and some of tlie sunflowers, can usually be kept in check by mo^^ang when in early bloom. The mower should be run high so as to miss as much of the grass as possible. Occasionally it is necessary to grub out such plants as the rosinweeds. Annual weeds, like mare's-tail or fireweed, simflower, and ragweed may be destroyed in the same manner. The mowing should always be done before the seeds ripen. This not only gets rid of the weeds, but gives the grass a chance to take adva
. Circular. Gramineae -- United States; Forage plants -- United States. 3 Perennial weeds, such as golden-rod, iron-weed, and some of tlie sunflowers, can usually be kept in check by mo^^ang when in early bloom. The mower should be run high so as to miss as much of the grass as possible. Occasionally it is necessary to grub out such plants as the rosinweeds. Annual weeds, like mare's-tail or fireweed, simflower, and ragweed may be destroyed in the same manner. The mowing should always be done before the seeds ripen. This not only gets rid of the weeds, but gives the grass a chance to take advantage of the fall rams. A thorough harrowing in the spring while the weeds are very voung will destroy many of them and will also give new life to the grass. Very'often weeds of both classes may be very effectually checked by burning over the pasture after they are well started in the spring. EFFECT OF CULTIVATION ON NATIVE GRASSES. The various native grasses are very differently affected by cultivation. Some do not do well at all and soon die out, others are but little affected either way, while still others respond very quickly and improve almost at once. This last class includes the most valuable of the native species, such as big blue-stem, western wheat-grass, ^v'ild-rye, and prairie Jiine-grass. The effect of loosening up the soil is very ap- parent in a field which has "gone back" and seeded itself to wheat-grass or blue-stem. In many parts of Nebraska and the Dakotas three or more tons of hay are often cut from such fields. The fine growth which most grasses make along the edges of cultivated fields is a sight familiar to all who have traveled over the western in-airies, and ought to be an object lesson to those to whom these same grasses are of so much importance. The fact that cultivation improves the more desirable native grasses has been demonstrated by nearly every experiment station in the West and by a great many private parties as well. An experiment m
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