. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. 438 MEADOWS AND PASTURES MEADOWS AND PASTURES needed for pasture. Awnless brome is also doing well where it has been tried, but its use is still in the experimental stage. On average good land, red clover, red-top, timothy and Kentucky blue- grass are probably the least fastidious, orchard- grass and meadow fescue being a little more ex- acting. (2) Choose grasses that animals like. If the plats be sown as suggested and ani- mals allowed to graze them, thei
. Cyclopedia of farm crops, a popular survey of crops and crop-making methods in the United States and Canada;. Farm produce; Agriculture. 438 MEADOWS AND PASTURES MEADOWS AND PASTURES needed for pasture. Awnless brome is also doing well where it has been tried, but its use is still in the experimental stage. On average good land, red clover, red-top, timothy and Kentucky blue- grass are probably the least fastidious, orchard- grass and meadow fescue being a little more ex- acting. (2) Choose grasses that animals like. If the plats be sown as suggested and ani- mals allowed to graze them, their choice will be apparent. On the Dunkirk ^ clay loam soil at Cornell University, ^ Ithaca, New York, dairy cows ^ ranked the grasses in the follow- ^ ing order: awnless brome, red and alsike clover, meadow fescue and timothy, orchard-grass, Kentucky blue-grass and red-top, the last mentioned grass being shunned wherever it occurred. On the Dunkirk clay in the Genesee val- ley. New York, fattening steers ate Canada blue-grass, Kentucky blue - grass, Danthonia spicata (which is rather prevalent), equally well, while red-top and timothy were left. Horses and sheep are more partial to orchard- grass than are cattle. T I. cies of grasses to secure a continuous "bite" throughout the season, but also because conditions change; some of the grasses being slow in occupying the land, early - maturing species are sown with them to fill the land and to exclude weeds, thus ensuring larger yields. Some of the grasses should furnish abun- dance of leaves and but few stems, thus giving a close, dense turf; among such grasses are Kentucky blue-grass, hard fescue and some strains of timothy. Certain grasses are useful because ij[ of their stoloniferous habit of growth, which enables them bet- ter to withstand the treading of stock and to live and reproduce below ground. Such plants include Kentucky blue-grass, red-top, white clover and many kinds of Please note that these ima
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