Soils and crops of the farm . g to the genns Stipa and to the genus Oryzopaisare leading types. Koeleria criatata, DeschampsiaCoeapitosa, and several speciesof the genus Festuca are wide-ly diffused. Blue - joint (Calamagrosticcanadensis) is one of the bestand most productive on moistsoils and in cool climates. There is space for only abrief description of some of thebetter known cultivated — Herds grass,meadow cats-tail grass, arecommon names given to thegrass plant known botanicallyas Phleum pratense, L. Themost common name is is widely distri-buted. It is un
Soils and crops of the farm . g to the genns Stipa and to the genus Oryzopaisare leading types. Koeleria criatata, DeschampsiaCoeapitosa, and several speciesof the genus Festuca are wide-ly diffused. Blue - joint (Calamagrosticcanadensis) is one of the bestand most productive on moistsoils and in cool climates. There is space for only abrief description of some of thebetter known cultivated — Herds grass,meadow cats-tail grass, arecommon names given to thegrass plant known botanicallyas Phleum pratense, L. Themost common name is is widely distri-buted. It is universally ad-mitted, however, that timothywas first brought into cultiva-tion in this country. As thestory goes, Timothy Hanson, ofMaryland, first introduced theplant from England in forty years later Peter Wynoh took seed of itfrom Virginia to England. Its cultivation beganthere. It is claimed also that a man named Herdfound it growing wild in a swamp in New Hamp-shire as early as 1700 and began its TniOTHT. GBASSES 203 Timothy is Dot adapted to swamp laads. The reasonfor the name cats-tail grass is Bnfficientlj obviousfrom the appearance of the head or spike. Nowhere in the world is timothy so well and favor-ably known as in America. It is pre-eminently thehay plant of the grass family in the United Stat« other plant in the grass family compares with itin extent of production for hay. North of the Golfstates it is almost exclusively the hay of commerce inthe eastern half of the United States. Bed top andclover hay is of course, sold to some extent, but theamount is small as compared with timothy. The great popularity of timothy as a hay crop isdue to the very satisfactory reason that it producesan abundance of hay of good quality over a largeterritory, and on a considerable variety of soils. Itis easily and cheaply grown and the hay can be har-vested cheaply and with comparatively small risk toquality. The fact that it can usually be put into t
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