CONCLUSIONS I GRASSES FOR HAY 73 



The millets are not at all adapted to use as nurse- 

 crops for clovers or other grasses. It has been my ob- 

 servation that many men sow millet occasionally, but 

 few care for the crop in regular use. In Ohio I have 

 known few men to sow millet two years in succession. 

 Doubtless the fact that the market does not call for 

 millet hay has considerable influence. 



SUMMARY: GRASSES FOR MEADOWS. 



Farm practice seems to be about abreast with good 

 science in the matter of grass meadows. Timothy is 

 the almost universal meadow grass and deserves the 

 place wherever there is enough moisture, lime, fertility 

 and not too much heat. The other grasses are almost 

 all inferior to timothy in point of yield, ease of estab- 

 lishment and general adaptability to a farm scheme. In 

 dry soils north of the Ohio River brome grass seems 

 the best meadow grass, especially desirable for the Da- 

 kotas, Nebraska and farther west. There is danger in 

 sowing brome grass that one may get seed of quack 

 grass. Timothy seed is easily distinguished and not 

 much adulterated. Orchard grass is a better grass for 

 pasture than for hay. Redtop denotes a second-rate 

 soil or worse. Meadow fescue has considerable merit 

 and is well worth putting into mixtures. It seems es- 

 pecially w r ell adapted to the soils and climate of Kansas. 



After 30 years' study of grasses I could advise a 

 beginner in farming whose land was located within the 

 cornbelt no better than this : Drain your land, lime it 

 and feed it. Sow timothy, mix with it if you choose 

 some meadow fescue and brome grass. Sow red and 



