. 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. at recommended in the catalogue: COST OF SEED PER ACRE Lbs. Price Cents Coslper Acre 1525 ?i20203024403025 6%8815 \l12 162545 $ .97^ Italian rye-grass . English rye-grass Redtop .... Meadow-fescue . Brome-grass ... Canada blue-grass . Orchard-grass ... Kentucky blue-grass . ... Tall oat-grass . Tall fescue The low p
. 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. at recommended in the catalogue: COST OF SEED PER ACRE Lbs. Price Cents Coslper Acre 1525 ?i20203024403025 6%8815 \l12 162545 $ .97^ Italian rye-grass . English rye-grass Redtop .... Meadow-fescue . Brome-grass ... Canada blue-grass . Orchard-grass ... Kentucky blue-grass . ... Tall oat-grass . Tall fescue The low price of timothy is due largely to its goodseed habits, because of which so much of this crop isgrown as to render the seed a standard article of com-merce. On account of the low price, together with thesmall size of the seed, it costs less than half as muchper acre to seed with timothy than with any other cul-tivated grass. The low cost of rye-grass seed is due to the greatabundance of these seeds produced in England and onthe Continent of Europe, where they are the leadinggrasses. The high price of tall fescue seed is duelargely to the small amount produced. There is no in-trinsic reason why it should command a higher price. 64 FARM GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES than meadow-fescue. From the table it is seen that thecost of some varieties of seed, such as tall fescue andtall oat-grass, is so high as to be well-nigh difference in .cost undoubtedly has much to dowith the lack of popularity of many grasses, even insections where the3^ are superior to others. WEIGHT PER BUSHEE In most trade centres the sale of seed by the meas-ured bushel has been abandoned, and the much moresatisfadlorjr method of selling by the hundred poundssubstituted. However, the weight per bushel is highlyimportant as an approximate indication of quality,as it determines very closely the amount of chaff,although giving no information regarding weed seedsand adulterants. The recognized weights
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