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well. The taste of alfalfa gives them more appetite 

 for orchard grass too. Orchard grass does not run 

 and thicken up as does Kentucky bluegrass and 

 brome grass and will not so soon crowd out the 

 alfalfa. 



English bluegrass (Festuca elaitor) is the tall 

 fescue grass growing from 2 to 4 feet high, and is 

 a nutritious grass, and animals like it. It mixes 

 admirably with alfalfa when it is to be grazed. It 

 does not spread rapidly and in fact is not in its 

 prime for several years after sowing. It thrives on 

 the dry prairie lands of Kansas and Nebraska. It 

 may be that there is no better grass for mixing with 

 alfalfa than this. It has no bad qualities that the 

 writer has seen. 





