. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. 438 MEADOWS AND PASTURES MEADOWS AND PASTURES. needed for pasture. Awnless brome is also doing well where it has been tried, but its use is still in the experimental sta^e. On average good land, red clover, red-top, timothy and Kentucky blue- grass are probably the least fastidious, orchard- grass and meadow fescue being a little more ex- acting. (2) Choose grasses that animals like, the plats be sown as suggested and ani- mals allowed to graze them, their choice will be apparent. On the Dunkirk clay loam soil at Cornell University, Ithaca
. Cyclopedia of farm crops. Farm produce; Agriculture. 438 MEADOWS AND PASTURES MEADOWS AND PASTURES. needed for pasture. Awnless brome is also doing well where it has been tried, but its use is still in the experimental sta^e. On average good land, red clover, red-top, timothy and Kentucky blue- grass are probably the least fastidious, orchard- grass and meadow fescue being a little more ex- acting. (2) Choose grasses that animals like, the plats be sown as suggested and ani- mals allowed to graze them, their choice will be apparent. On the Dunkirk clay loam soil at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, dairy cows ranked the grasses in the follow- ing order: awnless brome, red and alsike clover, meadow fescue and timothy, orchard-grass, Kentucky blue-grass and red-top, the last mentioned grass being shunned wherever it occurred. On the Dunkirk clay in the Genesee val- ley. New York, fattening steers ate Canada blue-grass, Kentucky blue - grass, Danthonia spicata (which is rather prevalent), equally well, while red-top and timothy were left. Horses and sheep are more partial to orchard- grass than are cattle. Seeding grass-land. In seeding temporary grass-land, select seeds of plants which mature quickly ; it is wasteful to sow seeds of Kentucky blue- grass, meadow fescue or meadow fox- ^ tail, since it takes two or three ^^ years for these plants to attain full growth. Red and alsike clo- vers, timothy, red-top and or- chard-grass suggest themselves as being desirable for this purpose. For permanent grass-land there is a greater variety at our dis- posal. In addition to those already mentioned, alfalfa, meadow fes- cue, meadow foxtail, Kentucky blue-grass, hard fescue, Canada blue-grass and others may be used. I- For a meadow a few kinds of " grasses are usually sown, and these are generally the tall, strong-growing species, as timothy, \ red-top, tall fescue, alsike and red clo- '|; ver. Almost invariably when maximum yields are secured, only one or two spe-
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