40 PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY PASTURES 



BROMUS INERMIS 



{An-nless Browne Grass, or Hungarian Forage Grass). 



This grass is much used in the South-east of Europe, and 

 produces an extraordinary amount of fodder. The plant is 

 also largely gi'o\Mi in several parts of North America, where it 

 endures both heat and cold, thriving where no other gi-ass of 

 any value can be rehed on. In this country, of which it is not 

 a native, all kinds of stock eat it greedily, even in preference 

 to Italian Rye Grass. Compared with that grass, Bromus 

 mernm starts earher in spring, yields quite double the crop at 

 the first cut, and the analysis made for me by Dr. J. Augustus 

 A^oelcker shows the Bromus to be the richer in albuminoids 

 and nitrogen. 



The plant is perennial, gi-ows rapidly, and yields an 

 immense quantity of succulent herbage. Seed is usually sown 

 alone for a forage crop, but unfortunately the germination in 

 the open is rather capricious, even after the usual tests have 

 proved satisfactory. 



BROMUS SCHRiEDERI 



{Schroidcr s Brcnyie Grass). 



This grass is not a native of Britain, and cannot claim 

 to be strictly perennial. Still, it is a valuable forage plant. 

 The herbage, although harsh, is very sweet and nutritious, 

 and is readily eaten by stock. The plant is remarkable for 

 its habit of free growth in early sprmg and late autumn. 

 Constant mowing or grazing is the secret of successful culture, 

 and the growth should not be allowed to attain a greater height 

 than eighteen or twenty inches ; four or five crops will then be 

 produced in a year. In warm moist seasons especially its use- 

 fulness will be manifested. Several years ago I saw a field 

 of Schraider's Brome Grass which kept an extraordinary head 



