. Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. and platit grew fairly, producing culms 24 inches high, bearing a largeamount of seed. Killed by the first frost. Of little value. Heff Grass—Eragrostis Ahysinnioa.—A medium growing annualgrass, probably a cultivated variety of E. pilosa. In Abysinnia theabundant seeds of this grass are used to make bread. On our low-land plat it grew finely and produced a very heavy crop of seed, which dropped as soon as ripe. Failed to shoot from stubblewhen mown. This annualgrass is inferior to the milletsand non-saccharine sorghums,and
. Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station. and platit grew fairly, producing culms 24 inches high, bearing a largeamount of seed. Killed by the first frost. Of little value. Heff Grass—Eragrostis Ahysinnioa.—A medium growing annualgrass, probably a cultivated variety of E. pilosa. In Abysinnia theabundant seeds of this grass are used to make bread. On our low-land plat it grew finely and produced a very heavy crop of seed, which dropped as soon as ripe. Failed to shoot from stubblewhen mown. This annualgrass is inferior to the milletsand non-saccharine sorghums,and has, therefore, for us littleagricultural value. Kentucky Blue G r a s s—Poa. pratensis. — A mediumgrowing,fine-leaved perennialgrass, native of the cooler tem-perate zone. Considered thebest pasture grass for drylimestone soils. On our low-land plat this grass failed en-tirely. On the upland plat itgrew very slowly until fall,then grew better during falland winter. Grew well thesecond year and made a fineturf. Has held its groundsince. Succeeded fairly from. Fig. 15.—Kentucky Blue Grass.
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