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MEADOW FESCUE RANDALL GRASS-EVERGREEN 

 GRASS (Festuca pratemis.) 



This grass has received some attention 

 in different 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, consequently, af- 

 fords a very early nip to cattle. It has 

 been raised under various names, in 

 Virginia, 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 herbage all the winter." 



Mr. James Taylor, writing to the Ag- 

 ricultural Bureau from North Carolina, 

 says : 



" The evergreen grass is very good for 

 pasturing through the fall and winter. 

 I have no knowledge of its origin. It 

 will do best when sown on dry land, and 

 iswell 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. 



