. The Canadian farmer's manual of agriculture [microform] : the principles and practice of mixed husbandry as adapted to Canadian soils and climate : comprising: the field; produce of the farm; stock raising and management; manufactures of the farm; dairy; diseases of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs; farm buildings, modern machinery and implements : counsel to the immigrant-settler, Agriculture; Farms; Agriculture; Exploitations agricoles. Manual of Agricuditre. '" Fancy butter,' that will sell for a dollar per pound, cannot be made from bad material—from milk produced on weedy pastures
. The Canadian farmer's manual of agriculture [microform] : the principles and practice of mixed husbandry as adapted to Canadian soils and climate : comprising: the field; produce of the farm; stock raising and management; manufactures of the farm; dairy; diseases of horses, cattle, sheep, pigs; farm buildings, modern machinery and implements : counsel to the immigrant-settler, Agriculture; Farms; Agriculture; Exploitations agricoles. Manual of Agricuditre. '" Fancy butter,' that will sell for a dollar per pound, cannot be made from bad material—from milk produced on weedy pastures, or upon the rank sour herbage of swamps, or upon land newly seeded with red clover. The experienced butter dairymen, there- fore, pay much attention to the feed of their cows, and prefer old pastures. " On the old pastures of the butter district there are several varieties of grasses that spring up spontaneously, and are much esteemed as affording sweet and nutritious feed, from which the best qualities of milk and butter are produced. These grasses form a dense solid turf, leaving no intervening spaces. They em- brace the June, or blue grass {Poa pratensis), the fowl meadow- grass {Poa aerotina), meadow fescue {Featuca pratensia), red top {Agroatia vulgaria), the wire grass {Poa compresaa), the sweet- scented vernal and vanilla grass, together with timothy {Phleum pratense), orchard grass {Dactylis glomerata), clover and other forage plants. " The June grass {Poa pratenais) is regarded as very valuable; it throws out a dense mass of leaves, is highly relished by cattle, and produces milk from which a superior quality of butter is made. It is found growing throughout the butter districts of the country. The wire grass {Poa compresaa) is deemed one of the most nutritive of the grasses ; is very hardy, eagerly sought after by cattle, and is one of the best gi'asses for fattening. Cows feed- ing upon it yield milk of the richest quality, from which the nicest butter
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