. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. ]\rANGOLD—BEET-ROOT—BUCKWHEAT. 161 tliroc times tli(? yield o£ lucerne. It comes in earlier than other crops, and lasts loug-er, and its cultivation requires hut little care after the root- euttinj^s are once planted, as it is a perennial. Cattle, sheep, and especially horses, although they prefer other food, soon acquire a taste for it in the green state; when dried it makes an excellent sub- stitute for hay to mix with straw for chaff-cutting'. Prickly comfrey is at present cultivat
. Dairy farming : being the theory, practice, and methods of dairying. Dairy farms; Dairy plants; Milk plants. ]\rANGOLD—BEET-ROOT—BUCKWHEAT. 161 tliroc times tli(? yield o£ lucerne. It comes in earlier than other crops, and lasts loug-er, and its cultivation requires hut little care after the root- euttinj^s are once planted, as it is a perennial. Cattle, sheep, and especially horses, although they prefer other food, soon acquire a taste for it in the green state; when dried it makes an excellent sub- stitute for hay to mix with straw for chaff-cutting'. Prickly comfrey is at present cultivated in parts of England, Ireland, France, and India, and its introduction into California for the poultry yards has been suggested, as fowls are very fond of it. The analysis No. 22 refers to a freshly-gathered plant. Common Plantain, or Rib-grass, Pliinlai/o liiii- ceolata (Plate 2, Fig. 8), belongs to the natural order , and is not a true grass. It has narrow leaves tapering at both ends, and with prominent parallel veins. The flowers are small, and without stalks, and are closely arranged on an elongated axis. The fruit is a nutlet contain- ing a seed, and the long clusters of these nutlets, forming the " bobtails" of which canaries and other birds are so fond, constitute familiar objects in summer in meadows and cultivated fields. The leaves are piroduced early in the season, and are then eaten by horses and cattle; but it is rather for the binding action which this plant, like the milfoil, exerts on loose soils, than as a forage plant, that it is introduced into seed mixtures. Owing to the low-lying and spreading habit of its leaves, however, the jilant often takes up much more room than it is worth ; this property manifests itself especially on lawns, where the rib-grass is nothing but a nuisance. The Greater Plantain, Planfago major, has broader leaves than the rib- grass, and its long spikes of nutlets are much sought after by birds. The Mangol
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