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tion for Kansas conditions. Its behavior in furnishing 

 hay and pasture has also been favorably reported from 

 I^ew York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, 'New Jersey and 

 in several of the '^ew England states. It has been 

 recommended by high authority as being suitable for 

 Indiana, and there would seem to be no good reasons 

 why it should not be equally suitable for the conditions 

 of the neighboring states. In the states bordering on 

 the Mississippi, except in Kentucky and Tennessee, it 

 has not been much tested, but it should grow fairly 

 well in all of these. In the semi-arid states it should 

 stand dry weather better than some other grasses, yet it 

 is at least doubtful if it has any important mission 

 for these in the purely range country, but where winter 

 wheat will grow nicely in these as it does over large 

 areas so will meadow fescue. In the more northerly of 

 them the conditions would be against winter grazing in 

 the lines on which it is conducted in the Atlantic and 

 Gulf states. Meadow fescue will doubtless grow well 

 in the irrigated valleys, but it is not specially needed 

 in these, since they grow alfalfa and clover so well. 

 No place probably in the United States or indeed in 

 l^orth America has higher adaptation for meadow fescue 

 than the strip of coast land along the Pacific from Cal- 

 ifornia to Alaska. 



Meadow fescue proved to be one of the most satis- 

 factory grasses grown as permanent pasture at the On- 

 tario Agricultural College experiment station at Guelph. 

 It was not only one of the most abiding but also one of 

 the most productive of these, and yet as a pasture or a 

 meadow grass it is not much grown on Ontario farms or 



