. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. tes states that it isrelatively most extensively culti-vated in Virginia, North Carolina,Tennessee, namely, along thesouthern border of the timothyregion. The Agricultural Experi-ment Station of Arkansas recom-mends the use of orchard grassfor permanent meadows and pas-tures, as the best grass for thatpurpose. It also thrives west ofthe Cascade mountains in thePacific northwest. Meadow Foxtail (Alopecuruspratensis).—This grass resemblestimothy, for which it is sometimestaken by
. Textbook of pastoral and agricultural botany, for the study of the injurious and useful plants of country and farm. tes states that it isrelatively most extensively culti-vated in Virginia, North Carolina,Tennessee, namely, along thesouthern border of the timothyregion. The Agricultural Experi-ment Station of Arkansas recom-mends the use of orchard grassfor permanent meadows and pas-tures, as the best grass for thatpurpose. It also thrives west ofthe Cascade mountains in thePacific northwest. Meadow Foxtail (Alopecuruspratensis).—This grass resemblestimothy, for which it is sometimestaken by the uninitiated, but itsstems are not so tall, its headsare shorter, and it blooms fully amonth earlier than timothy. Itgrows 1-3 feet tall and developsshort, creeping rhizomes. Thesheaths of its leaves are loose, the upper usually inflated. The spike-lets are i-flowered, flattened. The lemma equals the acute, cihateglumes with an exserted awn. The seed is produced sparingly, is of poorvitahty, and therefore, costly. The number of seeds per pound is1,216,000, and most of the commercial seed comes from Fig. 57.—Orchard grass {Daclylis glome-rala). (After Ball, Carleton R.: Winter ForageCrops for the South, Fanners Bulletin 147,1902, p. 21.) DESCRIPTION OF IMPORTANT GRASS FORAGE PLANTS 139 Growth and Hay.—It grows best on good soils and it is the chief grassof the richer natural pastures of Great Britain. It reaches maturity two, orthree years after sowing and growing best in wet meadows, where it is tobe ranked, as one of the earliest pasture grasses to start its growth in thespring. The hay of meadow foxtail is sweet and nutritive, especiallybefore the formation of seed, as the sugar is drawn from stem and leavesand is used in the formation of the reserve materials of the seeds. Itforms when grown an abundance of excellent pasture and all kinds ofstock like it. Smooth Brome Grass {Bromus inermis).—This is a grass of recentintroduction, perennial by a creeping
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