210 THE SOILS A.ND CHOPS OF THE FARM. 



known commercially and is so little grown that but 

 few farmers know it. If it was especially adapted to 

 the conditions of onr agriculture it would seem that 

 its cultivation would have been universal by this time. 

 The fact that it has zealous advocates may indicate 

 that there are special conditions of soil and climate 



over limited areas 

 in which it pro- 

 duces favorable 

 results. 



Orchard grass pro- 

 duces an abundance of 

 leaves early in the sea- 

 son, which are in bunches 

 or tussocks. It throws 

 up seed culms about as 

 high as those of timothy, 

 but they are produced 

 rather sparingly, especi- 

 ally the first few years 

 after being sown. The 

 result is a comparatively 

 light yield. 



Oechaed Geass.— (After Vasey.) It ripens about the 

 time of medium red clover, and hence is better in this 

 respect for mixing with medium red clover than is 

 timothy. The abundance of leaves, however, has a 

 repressing influence on the clover so that less clover 

 is produced than when the same amount of seed is 

 sown with timothy. It starts up with marvelous 

 rapidity after a crop is removed and is not easily 

 affected by drought. 



Judged by analyses the quality of the hay is 



