THE FORAGE AND FIBER CROPS IN AMERICA 



greater portion of many of the richer, natural pastures of 

 Britain. It requires two or three years after sowing to arrive 

 at full maturity and, therefore, it is not suitable for alternate 

 husbandry." * Hackel states that it is especially adapted to wet 



meadows. Meadow foxtail 

 is distinctly a pasture grass, 

 being one of the earliest 

 grasses to start in the spring. 

 On rich soils it may be tried 

 in mixtures for permanent 

 pastures at the rate of I 

 pound of seed to the acre. 



65. COLLATERAL READING. Wil- 

 liam Jasper Spillman: Farm Grasses 

 of the United States, pp. 75-89. 

 New York: Orange Judd Co., 1905. 



F. G. Stebler and C. Schroter: 

 The Best Forage Plants, pp. 52-60. 

 London: David Nutt, 1889. 



W. J. Beal: Grasses of North 

 America, Vol. I, pp. 151-3. New 

 York: Henry Holt & Co., 1896. 



Thomas Shaw: Grasses and Clo- 

 vers, Field Roots, Forage and Fod- 



Meadow foxtail taken at Cornell Station June 

 15. Plant well past bloom. Highest culm 



30 inches; clump 15 inches wide; 21 months der plants> pp . 1(M9 . Minneapolis: 

 old from single seed. One-twelfth natural , . . _ 



Northrup, israslan, Goodwin Co., 



Northrup, 

 1895. 

 In American Breeders' 



Association, 



A. D. Hopkins: Breeding Timothy. 

 Vol. II. (1906), pp. 95-9. 



Thomas A. Williams: Timothy in the Prairie Regions. In U. S. Dept. Agr. 

 Yearbook 1896, pp. 147-154. 



Henry Prentiss Armsby and J. August Fries: The Available Energy of 

 Timothy Hay. U. S. Dept. Agr., Bu. An. Ind. Bui. No. 51, 1903. 



Willet M. Hays: Plant Breeding. U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Veg. Phys. and 

 Path. Bui. No. 29 (1901), pp. 61-3. 



John W. Gilmore and Charles 1 ? . Clark: Second Report 011 the Influence 

 of Fertilizers on the Yield of Timothy Hay. New York Cornell Station Bui. 

 No. 241, 1906. 



x The Lawson Seed and Nursery Company: Agrostographia; Treatise on 

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