. The grasses of Tennessee; including cereals and forage plants. Grasses; Forage plants; Grain. 94 THE GRASSES OF TENNESSEE. A prominent sheep raiser of Tennessee who has been carry- ing a thousand sheep or more, says, during the summer it will carry double as many sheep as blue grass, acre for acre; but that blue grass will furnish more and better winter grazing. 6. It may be sown in the spring or fall with small grain or alone. It is best not to sow it with grain, as the extra production of grass, when sown alone, is worth more than the grain and grass grown together. It may be mown as hay o
. The grasses of Tennessee; including cereals and forage plants. Grasses; Forage plants; Grain. 94 THE GRASSES OF TENNESSEE. A prominent sheep raiser of Tennessee who has been carry- ing a thousand sheep or more, says, during the summer it will carry double as many sheep as blue grass, acre for acre; but that blue grass will furnish more and better winter grazing. 6. It may be sown in the spring or fall with small grain or alone. It is best not to sow it with grain, as the extra production of grass, when sown alone, is worth more than the grain and grass grown together. It may be mown as hay or cut with reapers or cradles, and bound in sheaves like oats. WOOD MEADOW GBASS—{Poa nemoralis). Spikelets ovate, compressed, flowers two to ten in an open panicle; glumes shorter than the flowers; lower palea compressed, keeled, pointless, five nerved; stamens two or three, seed oblong, free; stems tufted; leaves smooth, flat and soft This, together with many others, be- longs to the same family with blue grass. It grows from one and a half to two feet high ; has a perennial creeping root, and an erect, smooth, slender stem. It grows in swamps or watery soils, and very rank, and flowers in June, ripening its seed the following month. It has not been utilized as a meadow grass in Tennessee, but from its luxu- riant foliage, it would appear to be a good kind for mixing in swampy soils with other grasses, as stock are exceed- ingly fond of it, affording, as it does, a very fine, succulent, nourishing food. On analysis it yielded water , flesh-forming principles , fat-form- ing principles .81, heat-producing prin- ciples , woody matter , min- eral matters , from 100 parts, cut green. It is thus,. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Killebrew, J. B. (Joseph Buckner), 1831-1906
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