. Grasses and forage plants, by Killebrew. seeds harden. It will not shed rain verywell and it should be cut during a dry spell. It cures rapidly and unlessvery rank it may be hauled in and stored away the next day after it ismowed. It may be stacked in the open fields but the stacks must becapped with herds grass or timothy hay. The hay is sometimes gath-ered by pulling it up from between the corn rows. This is a tedious taskbut not more so than the pulling of fodder. Crab grass furnishes morehay for home use in the Gulf states than any other grass. It is usuallycut in August or Septembe
. Grasses and forage plants, by Killebrew. seeds harden. It will not shed rain verywell and it should be cut during a dry spell. It cures rapidly and unlessvery rank it may be hauled in and stored away the next day after it ismowed. It may be stacked in the open fields but the stacks must becapped with herds grass or timothy hay. The hay is sometimes gath-ered by pulling it up from between the corn rows. This is a tedious taskbut not more so than the pulling of fodder. Crab grass furnishes morehay for home use in the Gulf states than any other grass. It is usuallycut in August or September, and even as late as October. Mr. Sinclair says that the clean seed, when boiled in milk, makes adish resembling sago. It has been used as a substitute for sago in Ger-many, and is really cultivated for that purpose in some districts. BLUE GRASS—JUNE GRASS~(Poa pra^ensis. )—(Fastmc Grass.) This is a perennial grass and is well stjled the king of all the pasture grasses. It is very choice, however, in the selection of soils and Ktiilmky Bin, Giass~Poa 3. Upper leaf. 4. Empty glumtrs.
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