BROME-GRASS 175 



' ' Arctic grass. ' ' This name was given by a seedsman, 

 with a view to inducing farmers to grow it more gener- 

 ally. A few Southern seedsmen sell cheat-seed for 

 rescue, some using the latter name and some the name 

 ' ' Arctic grass. ' ' There is considerable advantage to the 

 seedsman from this practice, for he can get cheat-seed 

 very cheap at the large grain elevators of the Central 

 West. Men who practice this deception console them- 

 selves with the idea that, after all, cheat is about as 

 good a grass as rescue. They are wrong in this. In 

 addition to making hay inferior to rescue hay, it makes 

 less abundant winter pasture, and in some places is a 

 bad weed in grain-fields. 



