. 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. was pre-pared in the same manner as that showing the distri-bution of blue-grass (Fig. 19). Each dot representsa correspondent who reported it as an important grassin his locality. An examination of the map showsthat it is found most commonly around the southernborder of the timothy region; in fadl, it is decidedly thebest of the farm grasses in that portion of the
. 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. was pre-pared in the same manner as that showing the distri-bution of blue-grass (Fig. 19). Each dot representsa correspondent who reported it as an important grassin his locality. An examination of the map showsthat it is found most commonly around the southernborder of the timothy region; in fadl, it is decidedly thebest of the farm grasses in that portion of the country,and is deservedly popular there. It is most importantas a hay grass in Virginia, northern and western NorthCarolina, northern Georgia, northern Alabama, in Ten-nessee, and in those portions of Kentucky in which tim-othy does not thrive. In the regions here outlinedtimothy does well only on the best alluvial soils, and isliable to be entirely killed by the summer heat. Or-chard-grass is here adapted to a large variety of soils,and yields abundant crops of hay and pasture. It isbetter understood here than farther north. Orchard-grass is also grown considerably in Mis-souri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Wash-. 162 FAKM GRASSES OP THE UNITED STATES ington, and northwestern California. Along thePacific Coast west of the Cascade Mountains orchard-grass thrives remarkably well, and this is one sedlionin which it vies with timothy in a timothy worst disadvantage which it possesses in this sec-tion is its earliness. In all the region west of theRocky Mountains the rains fall mostly in winter,while the summers are dry. West of the Cascades inOregon, and more particularly in Washington, orchard-grass is frequently ready to cut before the spring rainsare over, and it is therefore not always possible to curethe hay. Timothy comes on about ten days later, andthus stands a better chance of finding favorable hayingweather. This objedtion does not hold east of theC
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