206 THE SOILS AND CROPS OF THE FARM. 



sown alone in the autumn and a crop harvested the 

 following summer. 



SLentacky Bine Orass — (Poa pratensis, L.) 

 There is a large number of species of Poa which 

 grow more or less abundantly in this country, but 

 the principal one is Kentucky 

 blue grass. 



Poa pratensis is also 

 known as June grass, 

 spear grass, green grass, 

 smooth stalked 

 meadow grass 

 and blue grass. 

 In some locali- 

 ties wire grass 

 (Poa compressa) 

 is known as blue 

 grass, and Ken- 

 tucky blue grass 

 is known as green 

 grass. This gives 

 rise to much con- 

 fusion and mis- 

 BLUE Grass. understanding, 



grass in such regions being be- 

 something entirely different from 



Kentucky 

 Kentucky blue 

 lieved to be 

 either. 



Kentucky 

 pasture grass 

 abundance of 

 a wide territory 



blue grass is pre-eminently the 

 of America. It produces an 

 pasturage of the best quality over 

 It makes a compact sod. The 



leaves are fine, succulent, palatable and nutritious. 



It is one of the earliest grasses to start in the spring 



and one of the latest to grow in the fall. 



