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GRASSES AND FORAGE PLANTS. 



Fig. 38. Sheep's Fescue. 



Fig. 40. Meadow Fescue. 



This is an excellent pasture grass, forming a very consider- 

 able portion of the turf of old pastures and fields, and is more 

 extensively propagated and diffused by the fact that it ripens 

 its s.eed before most other grasses are cut, and sheds them to 

 spring up and cover the ground. Its long and tender leaves 

 are much relished by cattle. It is never or rarely sown in this 

 country, notwithstanding its great and acknowledged value as a 



