. Farm grasses of the United States; a practical treatise on the grass crop, seeding and management of meadows and pastures, descriptions of the best varieties, the seed and its impurities, grasses for special conditions, etc., etc. erse to most useful of these are : Giant Rye-grass i^Elymus condensatus).—Thisgrass produces an abundance of good seed which couldeasily be saved if a demand were created for it. Itgrows in the wild state in large clumps, but when theseed is sown at the rate of 25 or 30 lbs. per acre itmakes a uniform growth, and gives a large yield ofcoarse but palatable ha
. Farm grasses of the United States; a practical treatise on the grass crop, seeding and management of meadows and pastures, descriptions of the best varieties, the seed and its impurities, grasses for special conditions, etc., etc. erse to most useful of these are : Giant Rye-grass i^Elymus condensatus).—Thisgrass produces an abundance of good seed which couldeasily be saved if a demand were created for it. Itgrows in the wild state in large clumps, but when theseed is sown at the rate of 25 or 30 lbs. per acre itmakes a uniform growth, and gives a large yield ofcoarse but palatable hay. The hay is said, by thosewho have fed it, to be very nutritious, but it containssalts enough to make it decidedly laxative. It is,therefore, better adapted for cows than for some farmers who have grown it for horse-feed speak highly of it. It deserves attention as ahay grass on soils too strongly alkaline for alfalfa.(A typical view on ranges of the West, showing GRASSES FOR SPBCIAI, CONDITIONS 199 Elymus condensatus in low alkaline soil, is seen in Fig- 43-) SalT-grass {Distichlis maritimd), a small, sod-forming grass, grows on soils very strongly forms of it grow tall enough to cut for hay. It. FIG. 43—TYPICAL VIEW ON RANGES OF THE WESTSHOWING BUNCHES OF GIANT RYE GRASS is too salty for first-class feed, but stock eat it veryreadily when better feed is scarce. No attention hasbeen given to its propagation. It is a shy seed-bearer,but a little attention from the plant-breeder coulddoubtless develop a strain of salt-grass of considerablevalue for soils too strongly alkaline for other grasses. XIV LAWNS AND LAWN-MAKING* WELL-MADB and well-kept piece of greenswardis a beautiful and pleasing objecfl, restful aliketo the eye and body. It thus has both aestheticand pradlical value, and justifies whatever ex-penditure its making and maintenance entail. GRASSES FOR THE LAWN In seledling the grass the lawn-maker will be lim-ited to the fine-leaved, turf-
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