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 . s. (A plat ofbluestem in the grass-garden of the Department ofAgriculture is seen in Fig. 41.) There are a few other wild grasses of the West thatmay prove valuable for hay production on lands thatdo not now produce tame hay crops, for lack of suffi-cient moisture; but as their value is as yet entirelyproblematical, they do not need to be enumeratedhere. Extensive i
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 . s. (A plat ofbluestem in the grass-garden of the Department ofAgriculture is seen in Fig. 41.) There are a few other wild grasses of the West thatmay prove valuable for hay production on lands thatdo not now produce tame hay crops, for lack of suffi-cient moisture; but as their value is as yet entirelyproblematical, they do not need to be enumeratedhere. Extensive investigations are now in progress,with a view to testing them for this purpose. Large Water-grass (Paspalum dilatatum) isone of the native grasses of the South that has recentlyattracted attention, particularly for pasture is exceedingly well liked by stock, and furnishes 190 FARM GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES abundance of feed on medium to moist soils. Thestems grow two and one-half to three feet high, butare not leafy enough to produce much hay. It is de-cidedly bunchy in habit, each clump producing a greatmass of succulent root leaves which are greedily eatenby all classes of stock. Prof. S. M. Tracy, for many. FIG. 41—PLAT OF BLUESTEM IN THE GRASS-GARDEN ATWASHINGTON, D. C. years director of the Mississippi Experiment Station,regards this as one of the valuable pasture-grasses ofthe South. Its seed has recently been made availablein the markets. Guinea-grass (Panicum maximum) and Paragrass (Panicuni molle) are two grasses that have at-tracted considerable attention in southern Florida inrecent years. They are the standard grasses of theWest Indies, where the green forage, particularly fromguinea-grass, furnishes most of the roughage fed in GRASSES OF MINOR IMPORTANCE 191 cities. It is brought to market fresh from the field onthe backs of donkeys, and peddled about the grass is much used for pasture on the islands. InFlorida neither of these grasses
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