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in most regions, and in some regions as herd's 

 grass (Phleum pratense). 



It may be of interest to recall that each name 

 is merely borrowed from the name of the man 

 who was instrumental in introducing this partic- 

 ular grass; one man being Timothy Hanson or 

 Hanse, of Maryland, who is said to have brought 

 the seed from England in 1720; the other being 

 John Herd, who is alleged to have found the 

 grass growing wild in a swamp in New Hamp- 

 shire as early as 1700. 



One of these men distributed the grass 

 through Virginia and Carolina, the other through 

 New England and New York. 



From these regions it has spread in every 

 direction, proving adaptable to all climates and 

 soils, until it assumes preeminence in the pas- 

 ture and hayfield quite unchallenged except by 

 members of the clover family, with which it is 

 often associated. 



The clovers, to be sure, are not grasses in the 

 technical sense of the word. Nor, indeed, have 

 they the appearance of grasses even to the eye of 

 the most casual observer. But they rival the 

 grasses in their importance as fodder plants. In 

 certain regards, as for instance in the amount of 

 protein they bear, they outrival the grasses. 

 Also in their capacity to produce successive crops 



