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essarj to irrigate to grow it successfully, unless on the 

 higher bench lands adjacent to the mountains. In the 

 northern states from Montana eastward, it must, as 

 a rule, be grown for what it will produce in one season, 

 as in these it will succumb to the cold in winter. In 

 the southern states it will endure longer. But it should 

 render the best service Xorth or South when grown for 

 what it will produce in one season, as it so frequently 

 succumbs to the cold of winter. It should render best 

 service l^orth or South where it can be grown under 

 irrigation and to provide soiling food. 



This grass could doubtless be grown in Ontario and 

 Quebec, but could not be expected to endure the cold 

 of winter in these Provinces of Canada. It is not like- 

 ly to prove a marked success in the maritime provinces 

 of that country, or on the western prairies, but it ought 

 to succeed at least reasonably well in British Columbia. 



Soils. — Italian rye grass will grow well on a va- 

 riety of soils. Being a gTOss feeding plant and a rapid 

 grower, it does best on lands rich in the ingredients that 

 promote growth and in a mechanical condition favor- 

 able to the same. It will grow well, therefore, on moist 

 alluvial and calcareous loams or marls, on moist rich 

 loamy sands, on clays of medium tenacity, or on slough 

 lands that have been drained and that are not too peaty 

 in character. It will not grow so well on tenacious 

 clays, nor Avill it give very good results on dry soils 

 or worn lands of any kind, or on wet soils, notwith- 

 standing that it is so well fitted for being groAvn under 

 irrigation. It would not be easy to make land too rich 

 for growing this grass at its best. 



