CANADA BLUEGRASS 103 



till snow buries it a tremendously hardy grass, difficult 

 to kill in cultivated fields and not tolerating companion- 

 ship of clovers as well as does its namesake from Ken- 

 tucky. 



There are many soils on which it should be sown, 

 either alone or in mixture with other grasses. Lands 

 lacking in lime, in fertility, may take it quite well when 

 they would not take Kentucky bluegrass at all The best 

 grasses to mix with it for somewhat inferior soils are 

 redtop and orchard grass. Sheep fescue added to this 

 will also serve well. Cattle are fattened on this grass. 

 Sometimes where both grasses are found on the same farm 

 cattle are first fed on Kentucky bluegrass and later in the 

 season are turned on Canada bluegrass to finish them. 

 It is unquestionably a grass of high nutritive powers. 



Quantity of Seed to Sow. Canada bluegrass seed is 

 often sold as a substitute for true Kentucky bluegrass, 

 which leads to some disappointment. It is an easy grass 

 to establish; 15 pounds of seed sown with grain in the 

 fall, or with timothy, will give a stand. What has been 

 said of sowing Kentucky bluegrass will apply as well 

 to this grass. 



Canada Bluegrass as a Lawn Grass. Where there is 

 not quite enough fertility nor moisture for Kentucky 

 bluegrass it may easily be that Canada bluegrass will 

 make a very good lawn. For this purpose it should not 

 be mixed with Kentucky bluegrass, as the two do not 

 blend well. Sheep fescue sown with it will do very well. 

 Seed of Canad.a bluegrass is usually threshed with a 

 common thresher. The crop is mown with a mower after 



