54 GRASSES AND HOW TO GROW THEM. 



othj is thought to be indigenous to both Europe and 

 America. It is now also grown over considerable areas 

 in Western Asia and is'orthern Africa, and without ques- 

 tion a wide area of distribution awaits it south of the 

 equator. 



Timothy calls for a climate, temperate rather than 

 torrid or frigid, and moist rather than dry. But few 

 climates, if anv, are too humid for the successful growth 

 of timothy, the other conditions being right. But the 

 climate is too dry even in some parts of the United 

 States and Canada. Especially is this true of the 

 mountain valleys eastward from the range of moun- 

 tains nearest to the Pacific and of the range country for 

 several hundred miles east from the Bockies. But in 

 these areas good crops can be grown under irrigation 

 and also without irrigation on many of the bench lands 

 which appertain to the mountains. That it is able to en- 

 dure much cold is evident from the fact that the winters 

 of Manitoba and Assiniboia do not destroy it. It can- 

 not so well endure hot summer temperatures, and this, in 

 part, accounts for the comparatively little success that 

 attends its growth in several of the southern states. 



In the United States, timothy may be grown under 

 certain conditions in some portion or portions of every 

 state in the Union. If, however, a line were run across 

 the continent from Washington to San Francisco, north 

 of that line would lie those states in which timothy may 

 be said to be a staple crop. In these states the highest 

 adaptability to its growth is found in those of them 

 adjacent to the Canadian boundary. Nowhere on the 

 continent probably does timothy grow so well as on the 



