. Farm crops; a practical treatise on the growing of American field crops: containing brief and popular advice on the seeding, cultivating, handling and marketing of farm crops, and on the management of lands for the largest returns. Agriculture. i66 FARM CROPS third year it becomes fully established. It readily yields from I to 2 tons of hay to the acre. The best time to cut is when the plants are in flower. It is a very good crop for overflow lands, as the overflows do not damage it. Its many good qual- ities should place it in every grass mixture, whether for pastures or meadows. MEADOW FOX
. Farm crops; a practical treatise on the growing of American field crops: containing brief and popular advice on the seeding, cultivating, handling and marketing of farm crops, and on the management of lands for the largest returns. Agriculture. i66 FARM CROPS third year it becomes fully established. It readily yields from I to 2 tons of hay to the acre. The best time to cut is when the plants are in flower. It is a very good crop for overflow lands, as the overflows do not damage it. Its many good qual- ities should place it in every grass mixture, whether for pastures or meadows. MEADOW FOXTAIL.—A hardy perennial much like timothy in appearance. The leaves are short, the stalks thick, making a rather coarse hay. It starts to grow earlier in the spring than timothy, but does not do very well alone. It takes about two years to get it fully es- tablished. For this reason it should be used as part of a grass mixture, either for permanent meadow or permanent pasture. When grown alone it yields from I to 2 tons to the acre. It stands high manuring, but has no inclination to spread like blue grass or Bermuda. Its chief value is in mixtures of meadows and pastures. MELILOTUS ALBA. — See Sweet Clover. MILLETS.—A. general name that includes many varieties of While this group includes many food products the millets are grown in this country chiefly for forage. Millet is a popular catch crop. If the winter wheat has failed, or for some reason the corn land was not fitted for the crop, a little later on the land can be prepared and seeded to some variety of millet. The three principal groups. MEADOW FOXTAIL Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Burkett, Charles William, 1873-. New York, Orange Judd company
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