. Farm grasses of the United States; a practical treatise on the grass crop, seeding and management of meadows and pastures, descriptions of the best varieties, the seed and its impurities, grasses for special conditions, etc., etc. Grasses. THE GRASS CROP 3 manent prosperity, the grasses and livestock have always occupied an important place. In the New Eng- land States, which have felt keenly the competition of the fertile lands of the Central West, agriculture has been able to maintain itself only by devoting the major portion of the improved land to grasses. Other crops may form the basis o
. Farm grasses of the United States; a practical treatise on the grass crop, seeding and management of meadows and pastures, descriptions of the best varieties, the seed and its impurities, grasses for special conditions, etc., etc. Grasses. THE GRASS CROP 3 manent prosperity, the grasses and livestock have always occupied an important place. In the New Eng- land States, which have felt keenly the competition of the fertile lands of the Central West, agriculture has been able to maintain itself only by devoting the major portion of the improved land to grasses. Other crops may form the basis of temporary prosperity, as has. -PERCENTAGE OF IMPROVED LAND DEVOTED TO HAY AND FORAGE been the case with wheat on the prairies of the North- west and the Pacific Northwest, and cotton in the South; but it was a prosperity that rested on too slen- der a basis, and, in both cases, led to disaster. The distribution of the grass crop in the United States is shown in Fig. i. This shows the percentage of improved land in each State devoted to hay and forage. The States may be divided into four fairly distindt groups, based on these percentages. The first. 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 Spillman, W. J. (William Jasper). New York, O. Judd company
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