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GRASS-EVERGREEN GKASS 



This grass has received some attention in dif- 

 ferent parts of the State, and has met with a 

 warm reception from those testing it. It ripens 

 its seed long before any other grass, and, conse- 

 quently, affords a very early nip to cattle. It 

 has been raised under various names, in Vir- 

 ginia, as " Randall Grass," in North Carolina as 

 " Evergreen Grass." In the mountain lands of 

 Virginia, a writer says : " The variety of forage 

 best adapted to sheep-grazing on the mountain 

 lands is the ' Randall,' a tall, coarse grass, 

 growing freely on the rocky soil to a height of 

 six feet, remaining green and affording fine herb- 

 age all the winter." 



Mr. James Taylor, writing to the Agricultural 

 Bureau from North Carolina, says : 



" The evergreen grass is very good for pastur- 

 ing through the fall and winter. I have no 

 knowledge of its origin. It will do best when 

 sown on dry land, and is well adapted to sheep. 

 It grows well on rocky soil, to the height of four 

 or five feet when ripe, continuing green in the 

 spring, and affording fine herbage throughout 

 the winter. It is best to sow in the spring with oats. A peck of 

 well cleaned seed is enough for an acre, or a bushel in the chaff. 

 It ripens about the first of June, or a little before rye harvest, and 

 is cut with scythe and cradle as we cut rye." 

 TALL FESCUE G-RASS (Festuca elatior.) 



This is a variety of the same, naturalized from Europe, and suited 

 to a rich loam, such as is found in the Central Basin. The Woburn 

 experiments show it to yield more nutritious matter per acre, when 

 rut in flower, than any other grass, cut either in flower or seed. 

 The number of pounds obtained was 51,046, which weighed, when 

 dry, 17,866 pounds, loss in drying, 33,180 pounds and furnished 

 3,988 pounds of nutritive extract. 



There are several other fescue grasses, as Ihe Spiked Fescue, 

 (F. loleacea), Hard Fescue, (F. duriuscula], and the Nodding Fes- 

 cue (F. utans), all indigenous to this country. The last two are 

 good hay grasses, as well as the Meadow Fescue. The Hard Fescue 

 was analyzed by Way and found to contain water, 69.33; flesh- 

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