. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. GRASSES AND FORAGE PLANTS. 151 maintain this young brood of suckers there must be a plentiful course of sap conveyed up through the main stem or straw; by this means the grass is kept green and fit for mowing all this long ; This grass grows abundantly in almost every part of Xew England, especially where it has been introduced and cultivated in suitable ground, such as the borders of rivers and intervals occasionally overflowed. It will not endure to b
. American farming and stock raising, with useful facts for the household, devoted to farming in all its departments. Agriculture. GRASSES AND FORAGE PLANTS. 151 maintain this young brood of suckers there must be a plentiful course of sap conveyed up through the main stem or straw; by this means the grass is kept green and fit for mowing all this long ; This grass grows abundantly in almost every part of Xew England, especially where it has been introduced and cultivated in suitable ground, such as the borders of rivers and intervals occasionally overflowed. It will not endure to be long covered with water, especially in warm weather. It is well to let a piece go to seed, save the seed and scatter it over low lands. It makes an excellent grass for oxen, cows, and sheep, but is thought to be rather fine for horses. It never grows so coarse or hard but that the stalk is sweet and tender, and eaten withoiit waste. It is very easily made into hay, and is more nutritive, according to Sinclair, than either foxtail, orchard grass, or tall meadow oat grass. Owing to its constantly sending forth flower- ing stems, the grass of the lattermath contains more nutritive matter than tlie first crop at the time of flowering, hence the names fertilis and serotina, fertile and late flowering meadow grass. It thrives best when mixed with other grasses, and deserves a place in all mixtures for rich, moist pastures. This species is most common in the Xorthem States, paiticularly north of Pennsylvania. It is a good grass for moist meadows. In Wisconsin and some of the other Western States, where many natural meadows of this grass occui', it is highly esteemed. The Creeping Meadow Grass, [Era'jrosHs rej3tam,')is frequently found on the sandy banks of rivers, and is a beautiful and delicate grass. Flower- ing in July and August. Its leaves are short, nearly awl-shaped, spikelets smooth, long and lance-shaped, flowers acute, sheaths loose, striate and a little hairy on the margi
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