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grade grasses only. It should consequently be used only in mix- 

 tures for poorer land and not be put in there where the purpose 

 in view is, to create permanent pasture-land on good, heavy soil. 

 Seedsmen and farmers should even be warned from putting this 

 variety in such mixtures as, owing to its capacity of strongly 

 shooting forth its roots in all directions and to long distances, it 

 has the bad tendency of pushing away every variety, good or bad, 

 but most of all the good-ones, which come in its way, so that 

 where it is itself a strong variety of, however, inferior value, it 

 would soon reduce the field which, without it, would surely show 

 a magnificent and valuable pasture-land. 



Bromus mollis (Soft Brome- or Goose-grass). A partly tuft- 

 forming and partly creeping grass, growing from 25 to 40 inches 

 high with a rather woolen-like stem and similar broad leaves, 

 yielding a large bulk of either grass or hay. It is a grass of very 

 little value, which should only be sown in very poor soils where 

 the better, more valuable varieties won't thrive, just to get at least 

 something from that land. 



It should never be put in mixtures destined for laying down 

 permanent pasture on good soil, as it would work there as a mere 

 weed. It thrives very rapidly indeed and pushes easily away every 

 good variety that comes in its way, so that it reduces in a very 

 short time the value of an originally good field, once it gets a 

 footing there. 



The cattle won't touch it as long as they can find only a small 

 bit of an other, better grass. Similar to Bromus pratensis and 

 inermis, it is horses only that do not so much object to it, although 

 these also do look for better and leave it alone, if they can find 

 something suiting their tastes better. 



Bromus Schraderi (Prairie-grass). A tall-growing, broad-leaved 

 grass, rather hard, making deep roots and not a useful species for 

 permanent pasture. As the name indicates already, it is a prairie- 

 grass and finds its use, therefore, mainly in rather rough-lying 

 districts of not exactly arable land, to make the best of it and 

 have at least something there in the shape of green fodder, where 

 for various reasons one could not think of laying down a regular 

 permanent pasture. Though of no great merit, it has at any rate 

 a certain nutritive value and is a fairly good grazing fodder for 

 horses; but it is rather too hard for cattle. Sown in rougher districts 



