Elementary principles of agriculture Elementary principles of agriculture : a text book for the common schools elementaryprinci02ferg Year: 1913 Pasture Crops 297 damaged by a limited amomit of this kind of treatment. The grasses are well siiit(>d to grazing because their stems and leaves grow in length largely from near their bases. They also have a habit of stooling or suckering, forming many stems, especially so if the older ones are grazed off. They form a turf out of the upper layer of soil that largely protects the roots from the tread of the grazing animals. Bluegrass, Bermuda gras
Elementary principles of agriculture Elementary principles of agriculture : a text book for the common schools elementaryprinci02ferg Year: 1913 Pasture Crops 297 damaged by a limited amomit of this kind of treatment. The grasses are well siiit(>d to grazing because their stems and leaves grow in length largely from near their bases. They also have a habit of stooling or suckering, forming many stems, especially so if the older ones are grazed off. They form a turf out of the upper layer of soil that largely protects the roots from the tread of the grazing animals. Bluegrass, Bermuda grass, mesquit grass, and many Fig. 189. Plowing Hungarian Brome grass sod five years after seeding. Kansas Agricultural College. others on the western ranges have perennial roots, and form stooling, suckering stems, or rhizomes, and grow throughout the warm seasons. 423. Valuable Pasture Plants in any country are few in number. The principal grasses are bluegrass in the North and Bermuda in the South. Besides these two, awTiless or Hungarian brome grass, timothy, redtop, and orchard grass are extensively used in the North; and redtop, Johnson, Guinea, Rhodes, rescue and Para grasses in some sections of the South. A good pasture grass
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