. Pastures and pasture plants ... Pastures; Forage plants. OUR PASTURE GRASSES unless mixed with other grasses, but it readily dries and keeps well as hay. It must be cut early, since the flower-culms soon harden. The following yields have been recorded:—Sinclair, at the time of flowering, 17,015 lbs. green, or 6,380 lbs. dried, produce, with 13,612 lbs. aftermath, from an acre of loamy clay ; Pinkert, from 2 cuttings, 6,340 lbs. of hay ; Sprengel, 8,800 lbs.; and Karmrodt, 9,940 lbs. as an average for four years. The seed crop is harvested like a cereal; and to prevent loss, it is customary t
. Pastures and pasture plants ... Pastures; Forage plants. OUR PASTURE GRASSES unless mixed with other grasses, but it readily dries and keeps well as hay. It must be cut early, since the flower-culms soon harden. The following yields have been recorded:—Sinclair, at the time of flowering, 17,015 lbs. green, or 6,380 lbs. dried, produce, with 13,612 lbs. aftermath, from an acre of loamy clay ; Pinkert, from 2 cuttings, 6,340 lbs. of hay ; Sprengel, 8,800 lbs.; and Karmrodt, 9,940 lbs. as an average for four years. The seed crop is harvested like a cereal; and to prevent loss, it is customary to cut the plants early with a scythe, the sheaves being dried, and then matured under cover. Rye brome {Bro?nus secalinus) and Darnel {Loliuin iremulentuiit) are used as adulterants. Good com- mercial seed should have about 80 per cent, of purity and germinating power, 54 lbs. being required to sow an acre. It is a useful fodder grass ; and may with advantage form up to a fifth part of mixtures of seeds for temporary pastures on suitable warm soils. Italian rye-grass is to be preferred to it only for leys of one year duration. Manuring is very beneficial. Bulbous-rooted oat-grass {Arrhenat/ierutn elatms, var. bulbosum),—a variety of the common False oat-grass, is distinguished from it by the short internodes at the bases of the culms swelling out into rows of tubers. Principally found on moist sands and loams, it constitutes one of the most pernicious weeds of arable land. Since both varieties are reproduced true from seed, irrespective of the nature of the soil in which they are grown, it is obvious that this is not, as sometimes supposed, merely the form assumed by Avena elaiior under certain conditions. Yellow Oat-Grass {Avena flavescens ; Trisetuin Jiavescens).—Perennial, forming loose tufts; flowering in the first fortnight of July; and maturing seed at the beginning of August. Though quickly stunted by stagnant water or very dry and poor ground, this grass grows wel
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