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damaged by a limited amount of this kind of treatment. 

 The grasses are well suited to grazing because their stems 

 and leaves grow in length largely from near their bases. 

 They also have a habit of stooling or suckering, forming 

 many stems, especially so if the older ones are grazed off. 

 They form a turf out of the upper layer of soil that largely 

 protects the roots from the tread of the grazing animals. 

 Bluegrass, Bermuda grass, mesquit grass, and many 



Fig. 189. Plowing Hungarian Brome grass sod five years after seeding. 

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others on the western ranges have perennial roots, and 

 form stooling, suckering stems, or rhizomes, and grow 

 throughout the warm seasons. 



423. Valuable Pasture Plants in any country are few 

 in number. The principal grasses are bluegrass in the 

 North and Bermuda in the South. Besides these two, 

 awnless or Hungarian brome grass, timothy, redtop, and 

 orchard grass are extensively used in the North; and 

 redtop, Johnson, Guinea, Rhodes, rescue and Para grasses 

 in some sections of the South. A good pasture grass 



