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 . 2^2 FARM GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES has isolated twenty-two varieties of brome-grass(Bromus i?ier?n?s Leyss.) as distinct, for instance, intheir agricultural characters, as the ordinary varietiesof w7heat (see Fig. 48). He has also isolated a largernumber of varieties of blue-grass (Poa prate?isis), dif-fering to a remarkable degree in character of growth,and, con
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 . 2^2 FARM GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES has isolated twenty-two varieties of brome-grass(Bromus i?ier?n?s Leyss.) as distinct, for instance, intheir agricultural characters, as the ordinary varietiesof w7heat (see Fig. 48). He has also isolated a largernumber of varieties of blue-grass (Poa prate?isis), dif-fering to a remarkable degree in character of growth,and, consequently, in agricultural value. It is probable that all the standard grasses can like-wise be separated into varieties, some of which wouldbe a marked improvement over these grasses as ordi-narily grown. Much work of this character is now inprogress, and it will be only a few }Tears till farmersmay be supplied with improved varieties of most ofthe important grass crops. GRASS FADS A wrord of caution to farmers concerning much-advertised new grasses may not be out of place, though,unfortunately, those who most need this caution willnever see these pages. Every few years some enter-prising seedsman discovers a new forage pl
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