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 . also of the negropopulation show .this same area in a similar is due to the peculiar soil of that region. This is abroad, fertile strip of black prairie soil, rich in limeand other plant-food. An examination of the geolog-ical map shows this strip to coincide with the rocks ofthe cretaceous period. With proper drainage, alfalfadoes well on this soil. The s
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 . also of the negropopulation show .this same area in a similar is due to the peculiar soil of that region. This is abroad, fertile strip of black prairie soil, rich in limeand other plant-food. An examination of the geolog-ical map shows this strip to coincide with the rocks ofthe cretaceous period. With proper drainage, alfalfadoes well on this soil. The same soil occurs again inan enormous area in northern and central Texas, form-ing the famous region of black waxy soil of that grass is perfectly at home throughout thisportion of Texas, but it does not, by any means, con-fine itself to these cretaceous soils in the South. Few grasses will stand greater extremes of moisturethan Johnson grass. It luxuriates in moist soils andalong the banks of drainage and irrigating ditches, butis at the same time noted for its ability to resist makes very little growth in exceedingly dry weather,but lies dormant, and springs up vigorously as soon asrain comes X REDTOP AND ORCHARD-GRASS HESE two grasses have nearly the same distri-bution in this country. They are both ofsecondary importance, compared with tim-othy. While more widely distributed thanany other grass, they are really important in only afew localities, as w7ill be seen in the following: REDTOP (Agrostis alba){Herds-grass of Pennsylvania and the South) Of the perennial farm grasses in the northernpart of this country, timothy ranks first; Kentuckyblue-grass is a fair second ; wdiile redtop (Fig. 29) isa poor third. In only one or two localities does red-top rise to first rank. These are in southeastern Illi-nois and adjacent parts of Kentucky, and in the NewEngland States. In the first-mentioned region the soilis a heavy clay, inclined to be wret, to w
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