Farm grasses of the United States; a practical treatise on the grass crop, seeding and management of meadows and pastures, descriptions of the best varieties, the seed and its impurities, grasses for special conditions, etc., etc . *ear ending June 30, 1904,180,239 lbs. of New Zealand orchard-grass were im-ported, and during the same time 298,654 lbs. ofBromus inermis) mostly coming from Russia throughGermany. Broi?itis inermis is raised extensively inMinnesota and the Dakotas, and down the Red RiverValley into Manitoba. Johnson grass seed is raisedalong the Gulf, from Alabama to Texas. Bermud
Farm grasses of the United States; a practical treatise on the grass crop, seeding and management of meadows and pastures, descriptions of the best varieties, the seed and its impurities, grasses for special conditions, etc., etc . *ear ending June 30, 1904,180,239 lbs. of New Zealand orchard-grass were im-ported, and during the same time 298,654 lbs. ofBromus inermis) mostly coming from Russia throughGermany. Broi?itis inermis is raised extensively inMinnesota and the Dakotas, and down the Red RiverValley into Manitoba. Johnson grass seed is raisedalong the Gulf, from Alabama to Texas. Bermudagrass seed is all imported from Australia, none beingraised in the United States. As this grass is becomingmore favorably known, the amount of seed importedis increasing annually. English and Italian rye-grassseed mostly comes from Scotland and Ireland. Theseed of the less common grasses, such as tall fescue,sheeps-fescue, the bent grasses, and sweet vernal, arenot saved in this country to any extent, but are im-ported from the Continent of Europe, mostly fromFrance and Germany. COST OF SEEDING DIFFERENT GRASSES The cost of seed sufficient to sow an acre of variousgrasses is shown in the following table. The prices. 62 FARM GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES are taken from the current catalogue of a well-knownseed house, and are there quoted for seed in hundred-pound lots. The quantity of seed to sow per acre,shown in the first column of figures, is in some casesless than half that recommended in the catalogue: COST OF SEED PER ACRE Lbs. Price Cost Cents Per A ere 15 $ .97^ 25 8 English rye-grass 25 8 Redtop 16 15 20 14 20 16 Canada blue-grass 30 12 Orchard-grass 24 l% 4-56 Kentucky blue-grass 40 16 Tall oat grass 30 25 7 50 25 45 The low price of timothy is due largely to its goodseed habits, because of which so much of this crop isgrown as to render the seed a standard article of com-merce. On account of the low price, together with thesmal
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