. Pastures and pasture plants ... Pastures; Forage plants. PASTURES AND PASTURE PLANTS CHAP. as being specially suitable for sowing with it; and he advocates only a small proportion being used at first, in order to allow the other grasses to develop, additional Cocksfoot being sown later. Grazing cattle sometimes uproot the tufts of grass, especially during periods of drought, though Sinclair observes that the herbage, when suffered to grow old, loses half its nutritive worth, and that it is therefore more valuable for depasturing than for hay. Rank tufts, which grow beside unspread droppings
. Pastures and pasture plants ... Pastures; Forage plants. PASTURES AND PASTURE PLANTS CHAP. as being specially suitable for sowing with it; and he advocates only a small proportion being used at first, in order to allow the other grasses to develop, additional Cocksfoot being sown later. Grazing cattle sometimes uproot the tufts of grass, especially during periods of drought, though Sinclair observes that the herbage, when suffered to grow old, loses half its nutritive worth, and that it is therefore more valuable for depasturing than for hay. Rank tufts, which grow beside unspread droppings and are therefore rejected by stock, must be cut with a scythe. Manuring is most profitable. Festuca—Fescue-Grass Tall Fescue-Grass {J'es- tuca elatior; Festuca arundi- nacea).—Very enduring peren- nial, growing in large tufts, and sometimes stoloniferous ; flowering in July; and ripening seed at the end of August. Of somewhat rank habit. Tall fescue-grass produces foliage very early in spring ; is highly productive and nutritive; is relished by cattle ; makes good quality hay, a little coarser than that of Meadow fescue; and is specially adapted for rich, moist soils of tenacious clayey nature, moist pastures near rivers and the sea-shore, damp, shady woods, and simi- lar positions where ordinary pasture grasses do not flourish. Sinclair obtained, at the time of flowering, 51,046 lbs. of green, or 17,866 lbs. of dried, fodder, with 15,654 lbs. of green and succulent aftermath, from an acre of black, rich loam. It is a valuable variety for permanent pastures for grazing on low-lying, medium and strong loams, as well as on undrained clays. The objection to its use is its tendency to attacks of Ergot when in flower. The seed, which is usually sterile when produced in this country,, and of which 52 lbs. are required to sow an acre, is a little larger than those of Meadow fescue-grass and Perennial rye-grass, being distinguished from them with difficulty. Good average commercia
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