. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. 450 MEADOWS AND PASTURES MEADOWS AND PASTURES properly. When curing is well done, the forage is nutritious and pc^latable. Japan chirr (Lesimieza striata). Fig. 593. This useful plant was first observed about 1850 at Charleston, S. C. Since that time it has spread throughout the cotton-belt and as far north as the Ohio and Missouri rivers. It is found rather gener- ally along r
. Cyclopedia of farm crops : a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada. Agriculture -- Canada; Agriculture -- United States; Farm produce -- Canada; Farm produce -- United States. 450 MEADOWS AND PASTURES MEADOWS AND PASTURES properly. When curing is well done, the forage is nutritious and pc^latable. Japan chirr (Lesimieza striata). Fig. 593. This useful plant was first observed about 1850 at Charleston, S. C. Since that time it has spread throughout the cotton-belt and as far north as the Ohio and Missouri rivers. It is found rather gener- ally along roadsides and in waste ground. It fre- quently comes up in old deserted fields, in all of which situations it furnishes a considerable amount of valuable pasture. It is available for pasture from early summer till late in the fall. It seeds abundantly and when once established, although it is an annual, it is more or less permanent. The hay is said to be of excellent quality. [See Lespedeza.]. Saccharine sorghum, grown for fodder. Sorghum (Fig. 674) is very largely used in the South, in late summer, as a green feed for all kinds of stock. It is not infrequently sown thick and cut for hay. It is planted like either corn or wheat. In the former case one-half a gallon to a gallon of seed is used; in the latter case, half a bushel to two bushels. [See Sorghum.] St. Augustine grass {Stenotaphrum secundatum), Fig. 530, is adapted to a wide range of soils, but seldom succeeds except near the coast. It is propa- gated readily by root-cuttings or pieces of the sod. Roots are formed wherever the joints touch the ground. Texas blue-grass (Poa arachnifera), Fig. 546, is a native of Texas, but it is now grown somewhat widely in the southern states. It makes a good sod, which remain? green the year round. It makes its principal growth during the winter, beginning in October and furnishing pasture until April or May. The seed is matured in April. In the summer months it makes little growth. Th
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