An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 888 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. cock's-foot grass(6
An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic An encyclopædia of agriculture [electronic resource] : comprising the theory and practice of the valuation, transfer, laying out, improvement, and management of landed property, and the cultivation and economy of the animal and vegetable productions of agriculture, including all the latest improvements, a general history of agriculture in all countries, and a statistical view of its present state, with suggestions for its future progress in the British Isles encyclopdiaofa02loud Year: 1831 888 PRACTICE OF AGRICULTURE. Part III. cock's-foot grass(6), and woolly soft grass(e). Where a crop of hay is desired within the year, it is necessary to resort to such grasses as are annuals in the strict sense of the word; and none can be better for this purpose than the common oat (Avena sativa), cut and made into hay when it comes into flower. Next in order may be mentioned the other cereal grasses and the annual varieties of ^romus: the latter, however, are very coarse grasses, though prolific in culm. 5654. The hiennicd rtje-grass (iolium perf^nne var. bienne L.) is well known, as being universally sown, either with or with- out clover, among corn crops, with a view to one crop of hay in the succeeding season. It attains a greater height, and produces a longer broader spike of flowers, than the perennial rye-grass, and the produce in hay is considered greater than that of any other annual grass, equally palatable to cattle. It prefers a rich loamy soil, but will grow on any surface whatever, not rock or undecayed bog. 5655. The perennial rye-grass (iolium per^nne L. Tvraie vivace, Fr.; Daurende Lolche, Ger. ; and Loglio vivace, Ital.) differs from the other in being of somewhat smaller growth, and in abiding for several years, according to the variety and the soil and culture. 5(556. Many consider this grass coarse, benty, and very exhausting to the soil; but, after all the experi. ments that have been made on the other grasse
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