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ORCHARD GRASS. 



Orchard grass is a rather coarse grass, which grows in tufta, 

 being particularly suitable for orchards or other shady places. 

 When young, it is very succulent, and its chief value is as pasture 

 grass, though, out early before it becomes coarse and woody, it 

 makes a fair hay. In mixtures for pastures it is very valuable on 

 account of its early and late growths, and its ability to withstand 

 drought. 



RED CLOVER. 



For cows in milk and young stock, red clover is one of the best 

 of forage feeds. It is especially rich in the protein and ash con- 

 stituents so essential to milk production. It is also very palatable 

 and much relished by cattle and is an excellent supplementary feed 

 where corn ensilage or mangels constitute the succulent part of the 

 ration. To get the best results from red clover hay, the seed should 

 have been sown very thickly, say 12 to 15 Ibs. per acre, and the 

 hay cut in full blossom before any brown heads are in evidence. 

 Clover hay made in this way from thick stands of clover is worth 

 anywhere from 50 per cent to 100 per cent more than late-cut hay 

 from thin, coarse-growing clover meadows. In pasturing cattle on 

 clover, care should be taken to avoid bloating (see under l Soiling 

 Crops'). In many parts of Canada, red clover is a biennial but 

 west of Lake Superior wherever it can be grown and more parti- 

 cularly in British Columbia, it is apparently perennial. 



RED TOP. 



Red top is one of the hardiest and most long-lived of grasses, 

 and so should be always included in mixtures for seeding pastures 

 which are to be left for a time in grass. Red top grows well on 

 rich, moist land; it makes a good pasture grass when grazed in its 

 early stage. It is also valuable as a hay crop, blossoming at the 

 same time as timothy, with which it may thus be sown. 



SLOUGH HAY. 



It is a tall, coarse grass of the West, making remarkably soft 

 hay, growing in wet sloughs. It grows abundantly, and, if cut 

 early, soon after the heads appear, forms valuable fodder much 

 relished by cattle. It contains more albuminoids and carbohydrates 

 than timothy. 



