objectionable grass. When fields of Awnless Brome Grass are badly infested, 

 it is best to break and backset them, and then take a crop of grain before 

 re-seeding, or the field may be burned over in the fall to destroy such seed of 

 the Wild Barley as may have fallen, and early in the following spring 

 plough the sod shallow, and then harrow and roll. In this way the Brome 

 Grass may be renewed without re-seeding, and most of the weed will have 

 been destroyed. 



"Excessive irrigation is said to favour the growth and spread of this 

 weed. Ditches and roads should be kept free of it." 



In addition to the above good advice, it may be mentioned that when 

 hay is found to be badly mixed with Skunk-tail Grass having ripe or hard 

 seeds, owing to the light feathery nature of the dry heads, the greater part 

 of them may be removed by tossing the hay lightly with a pitchfork on a 

 windy day. The heads can easily be disposed of afterwards by raking to- 

 gether and putting a lighted match to the pile. 



Skunk-tail Grass is a true Barley, and when young makes excellent feed 

 both green and as hay. 



SHORT-AWNED SKUNK-TAIL GRASS. Growing with the ordinary long- 

 awned and pale-coloured form is an easily detected variety with much shorter 

 awns to the seeds, taller and more erect stems, and the spikes which are 

 slenderer and more drooping much more tinged with red. The habits of the 

 two grasses are identical, and although generally growing together and 

 equally common, one form as a rule preponderates in a locality. 



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