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PRINCIPLES OF FEEDING FARM ANIMALS 



The sorghums are excellent for soiling; and are probably 

 used more extensively for this purpose than any other crop 

 in the United States. 



Red top, as previously stated, is adapted for growth on 

 poor, wet lowlands. It is more valuable for pasture than 

 for hay. 



Orchard grass does well in shady places, as in orchards. 

 It will stand heavy grazing and furnishes pasture very 

 early in the spring and very late in the fall. 



Bermuda grass is the 

 ordinary non-legume pas- 

 ture of the South. It is 

 very valuable and nutri- 

 tious. It is said that one 

 acre of good Bermuda 

 grass will support two 

 head of cattle or ten head 

 of sheep for eight months. 

 Johnson grass, al- 

 though used for hay in 

 the South, is not as valu- 

 able for pasture, as, like 

 the sorghums, it some- 

 times contains prussic 

 acid. 



Brome grass is the 



most important pasture 



grass of the Dakotas and 



Saskatchewan. It is also 



^. ^ used extensively for pas- 



Bronie-grass. (Piper, rorai^e 



Plants.) ture in Kansas and 



