8O THE FORAGE AND FIBER CROPS IN AMERICA 



purified until it weighs 24 to 28 pounds per bushel, 50 to 100 

 pounds of seed would be considered a good yield. 



Canada blue grass seed comes mainly from Ontario, Canada. 

 It is harvested there about August i. It is cut with an ordinary 

 mowing-machine when the dew is on, cured in cocks for about 

 one week, and then threshed. Five hundred pounds of seed 

 per acre is considered a good yield. 



79. COLLATERAL READING. F. G. Stabler and C. Schroter: The Best Forage 

 Plants, pp. 65-8; 72-83. London: David Nutt, 1889. 



William Jasper Spillman: Farm Grasses of the United States, pp. 90-102; 

 146-154. New York: Orange Judd Co., 1905. 



W. J. Beal: Grasses of North America, Vol. I, pp. 143-151. New York: 

 Henry Holt & Co., 1896. 



Thomas Shaw: Grasses and Clovers, Field Roots, Forage and Fodder 

 Plants, pp. 12, 13, and 20. Minneapolis: Northrup, Braslan, Goodwin Co., 

 1895. 



E. Brown and F. H. Hillman: The Seeds of the Blue Grasses. U. S. 

 Dept. Agr., Bu. PI. Ind. Bui. No. 84, 1906. 



J. B. Killebrew: Grasses and Forage Plants. Tennessee Station Bui. Vol. 

 XI (1898), Nos. 2, 3, and 4, pp. 14-17; 53-9. 



L. R. Jones: Vermont Grasses and Clovers, Vermont Station Bui. No. 

 94, 1902. 



