. Grasses and forage plants [microform] : a practical treatise comprising their natural history, comparative nutritive value, methods of cultivating, cutting and curing, and the management of grass lands in the United States and British provinces. Grasses; Forage plants; Hay; Graminées; Plantes fourragères; Foin. 104 COMMITTEES REPORT UPON Nothinf^ more clearly illustrates the want of accurate knowledge of subjects intimately connected with agri- culture, and immediately aftecting the farmers' interests, than the more recent history of the of this worthless pest to our gra
. Grasses and forage plants [microform] : a practical treatise comprising their natural history, comparative nutritive value, methods of cultivating, cutting and curing, and the management of grass lands in the United States and British provinces. Grasses; Forage plants; Hay; Graminées; Plantes fourragères; Foin. 104 COMMITTEES REPORT UPON Nothinf^ more clearly illustrates the want of accurate knowledge of subjects intimately connected with agri- culture, and immediately aftecting the farmers' interests, than the more recent history of the of this worthless pest to our grain-fields. It was, within the memory of many farmers who suffered from it, heralded in the papers, in connection with the names of distinguished friends of agriculture, with the earnest hope that it might receive extended trials. Monstrous prices were charged and paid by the farmer for its seed, in many cases four and five dollars a bushel, a pledge being exacted that it should not be allowed to go to seed. Committees of agricultural societies were in- vited to examine and report upon it; and in a letter now lying before me, the disinterested propagator very kindly offers to put up ten barrels of bromus-seed for one hundred dollars, saying that " of course the earliest applicants will be sure of obtaining till all is gone, which would scarcely give a barrel to a state. * * Years must elapse before the country can be supplied as it now is with Herd's grass and clover seed. My offer invites cooperation and participation in the profits and pleasures now available " — for taking advantage of the honest credulity v)f the public? A quantity of bromus-seed was sent to the State Farm of Massachusetts, for the purpose of experiment, with a letter with directions to sow with clover, in the spring of 1855. The crop was cut while yet green, and before the grass had developed sufficiently to distinguish it with certainty. The following year directions were given to let it stan
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