. 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. untain bearing that name. It ishoped that suitable local names for them may becomewell enough established to warrant their general use. Another representative of this genus is the well-known cheat or chess (^Bromus secalinus), Fig. 36, ofthe grain-fields. In the Willamette Valley, Oiegon,and in the Blue Mountains of the same State, cheat isgrown for hay to a consid
. 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. untain bearing that name. It ishoped that suitable local names for them may becomewell enough established to warrant their general use. Another representative of this genus is the well-known cheat or chess (^Bromus secalinus), Fig. 36, ofthe grain-fields. In the Willamette Valley, Oiegon,and in the Blue Mountains of the same State, cheat isgrown for hay to a considerable extent. It is anannual, adapted to sowing in the fall. It yields quitewell, but the hay is not of high quality. The rescue-grass (^Bromus unioloides), Fig. 37, ofthe South is another representative. This is also anannual. In south central Texas this grass grows wildquite generally. It is occasionally sown for winterpastures throughout the South, for which purpose ithas some value, but it possesses few, if any, advantagesas a winter pasture in that sedtion over the commoncereals. It would probably thrive a little farthersouth than the cereals. In Georgia and adjacentStates rescue-grass is frequently sold under the name. FIG. 37—RESCUE-GRASS BROMB-GRASS 175 Arctic grass. This name was given by a seedsman,with a view to inducing farmers to grow it more gener-ally. A few Southern seedsmen sell cheat-seed forrescue, some using the latter name and some the name Arctic grass. There is considerable advantage to theseedsman from this pradtice, for he can get cheat-seedvery cheap at the large grain elevators of the CentralWest. Men who pracflice this deception console them-selves with the idea that, after all, cheat is about asgood a grass as rescue. They are wrong in this. Inaddition to making hay inferior to rescue hay, it makesless abundant winter pasture, and in some places is abad weed in grain-fields. XII GRASSES OF MINOR IMPORTANCE OME of the grasses discussed in this cha
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