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 . as it is farther the West it had no competitors as a pasture-grass,while in the East it had to compete with several long-established and highly satisfactory grasses, particularlytimothy and blue-grass. It has already been statedthat nearly all the grass literature issued by the Stateexperiment stations comes from those stations outsideof the region of timoth
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 . as it is farther the West it had no competitors as a pasture-grass,while in the East it had to compete with several long-established and highly satisfactory grasses, particularlytimothy and blue-grass. It has already been statedthat nearly all the grass literature issued by the Stateexperiment stations comes from those stations outsideof the region of timothy, blue-grass, and red very satisfactory meadow and pasture crops,the farmers of the timothy region have not givenbrome-grass a thorough trial. As an illustration ofthe attitude of these farmers toward new candidates fortheir favor, we may quote the remark of an Ohio farmerwhen asked, in a circular letter, what were the hayand pasture problems of his section. We have noproblems of this kind, was his reply. What weneed is to know how to build barns more cheaply andhow to handle our livestock better. Our meadowTs andpastures already produce as much feed of the bestquality as land can be made to produce. This may. 168 FARM GRASSES OF THE UNITED STATES or may not be true, but it shows that grass problemsare not pressing in that sedtion. Yet it is probablytrue that brome-grass w*ould add much to the produc-tiveness of pastures, even in Ohio. J. E. Wing, thewell-known agricultural writer and ledlurer, whosefarm is in west central Ohio, says that a mixture ofbrome-grass and alfalfa will carry six times as muchstock there as blue-grass, and do it better. Yet bothof these crops are, or were until very recently, nearlyunknown in that State. Alfalfa is now rapidly gain-ing favor throughout the timothy region, and it isprobable that brome-grass will, in time, do the sameover much of this region. It has been stated on a previous page that palata-bility is perhaps the most impo
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