. Seeds and plants : 1902. Nursery stock Kansas Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. This extensively advertised grass was introduced from Russia. It is a vigorous, hardy perennial, with strong, creeping rootstalks; smooth, upright, leafy stems, •ne to four feet high and loose, open seed heads four to eight inches long. In a few years it forms a very tough sod, soon crowding out other grasses, clovers and weeds. Its remarkable drouth resisting qualities have proved it to be the most valuable grass f
. Seeds and plants : 1902. Nursery stock Kansas Catalogs; Vegetables Seeds Catalogs; Gardening Equipment and supplies Catalogs; Flowers Seeds Catalogs; Plants, Ornamental Catalogs. This extensively advertised grass was introduced from Russia. It is a vigorous, hardy perennial, with strong, creeping rootstalks; smooth, upright, leafy stems, •ne to four feet high and loose, open seed heads four to eight inches long. In a few years it forms a very tough sod, soon crowding out other grasses, clovers and weeds. Its remarkable drouth resisting qualities have proved it to be the most valuable grass for dry regions where other grasses could hardly exist. It is thoroughly permanent, and grows with wonderful rapidity, producing heavy crops and luxuriant pasture; its value to the farmers of dry regions cannot be overestimated. All kinds of stock eat It with relish, and chemical analysis shows that it is richer In flesh-forming ingredients than Timothy. It starts to grow very early in the Spring, before any of the grasses upon the native prairies show any signs of life, and re- mains green far into November. Cold wiU not kill it, it having been grown successfully as far North as Manitoba, in Canada. Without doubt, it is the grass for the dry regions of the West. Out of seven or eight hundred va. rieties tried at the Kansas Experiment Station this proved to be the best. "The SouthDakota Station has had, perhaps, the most extended and successful experience with Brome Grass, with the result that Professor Chilcott has been able to prepare the following practical directions for planting and subsequent care: Seed Bed.—Prepare the seed bed by plowing to a good depth, using jand as free as possible from weeds. Harrow and fine thoroughly. Sowing.—Sow the seed broadcast early in the Spring at the rate of fifteen to twenty pounds per acre, and cover with the harrow. In case the ground is liable to blow; sow a thin nurse crop of about one-half bushel of barley or oats. After Ca
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