. Milch cows and dairy farming; comprising the breeds, breeding, and management, in health and disease, of dairy and other stock; the selection of milch cows, with a full explanation of Guenon's method; the culture of forage plants, and the production of milk, butter, and cheese ... with a treatise upon the dairy husbandry of Holland; to which is added Horsfall's system of dairy management . anding its great and acknowledged value as apasture grass. If sown at all, it should be in mixturewith other grasses, as orchard grass, rye grass, or Junegrass. It is of much greater value at the time offl
. Milch cows and dairy farming; comprising the breeds, breeding, and management, in health and disease, of dairy and other stock; the selection of milch cows, with a full explanation of Guenon's method; the culture of forage plants, and the production of milk, butter, and cheese ... with a treatise upon the dairy husbandry of Holland; to which is added Horsfall's system of dairy management . anding its great and acknowledged value as apasture grass. If sown at all, it should be in mixturewith other grasses, as orchard grass, rye grass, or Junegrass. It is of much greater value at the time offlowering than when the seed is ripe. The Tall Oat grass (Pig. 66) is .the Ray grass ofPrance. It furnishes a luxuriant supply of foliage,is valuable either for hay or for pasture, and has beenespecially recommended- for soiling purposes, on ac-count of its early and luxuriant growth. It is oftenfound on the borders of fields and hedges, woods andpastures, and is sometimes very plenty in being mown it shoots up a. very thick aftermath,and on this account, partly, is regarded as nearly equalfor excellence to the common foxtail. It grows spontaneously on deep, sandy soils, whenonce naturalized. It has been cultivated to a consider-able extent in this country, and is esteemed by thosewho know it mainly for its early, rapid, and late growth, TALL OAT.—SWEET VERNAL. 181. Fig. 66. Tall Oat grass. Fig. 67. Sweet-scented Vernal. making it very well calculated as a permanent pasturegrass. It will succeed on tenacious clover 182 HUNGARIAN GRASS. The Sweet-scented Vernal grass (Fig. 67) is one ofthe earliest in spring and one of the latest in autumn;and this habit of growth, is one of its chief excellences,as it is neither a nutritious grass nor very palatable tostock of any kind, nor does it yield a very good is very common all over New England and theMiddle States, comjng into old worn-out fields and moistpastures spontaneously, and along every roadsi
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