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spread on the ground, its spikes, as already stated, are longer, spikelets 



muiv thinly set. and upon the whole producing a less bulk of seed which 



; nailer. In France this grass is stated to be generally sown in autumn 



at the rate of 16 to 18 pounds per acre, and the seed rolled in ; that in the 



next autumn the turf is covered like an old meadow, and the crop of the 



following year is more than double ; its growth, also is so rapid, that if 



n with clover or lucerne, it will quickly choke them. It is also said 



< of such a hardy nature that when cut in November, it has put forth 



fresh shoots of a foot in length in the close of December, and it has been 



found to stand the winter in the North of Europe. In quickness of 



\ th this grass has excelled all others of the true grasses which I 



have sown this spring and, bids fair to be agood crop notwithstanding the 



severe droughts it has been subjected to. Italian Rye grass is preferable 



to any of the other varieties for soiling purposes, it gives an early, quick 



and successive growth till late in the fall, it will stand any amount of 



forcing by irrigation, liquid manure or phosphatic applications It ha* 



i grown successfully at Guelph, Ontario, but for permanency has to be 



>riated with the more hardy grasses in order to withstand the winters* 



GRASS, BRISTLY Fox TAIL GRASS (Setaria gemianicum), 



grows in a dry warm soil. The stalk is nearly solid and the hay 

 \ heavy, and if cut in time will be as green as grass, and a horse, will 

 want little grain for ordinary farm work. One advantage in raising 

 Hungarian grass is the lateness it may be sown, for a farmer finding in 

 June that his meadows are light, or his corn a failuiv, can sow Hungarian 

 grass and make up the deficiency. 



Many make a mistake in seeding too soon ; the crop will be more or 

 injured ly weeds, which 86600 to grow under all circumsHiuvs. It 

 is but seventy days of reasonably good weather to make a crop of ha\ 

 this grass. 



THE CLOVERS OF THE FARM. 



cloven OX artificial grassi-^. In-longing mostly to the Lcguminosa Or 

 Family of plants are cultivated and used both in a green and dried 

 i fnr the domestk animak 



The artificial grasses hnv< l>*n cultivated over two nturii-s in Eng- 

 land, fted clover is supposed to have been ii-ld cr- 



En this Country J th.- introduction and cultivation of Red cloY.'i 

 m 177<>, ;il"it tint tun. a -mall quantity of r-d '1..\ 



