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Meadows and pastures 14-55 



longevity 14-15, 42-43 



Management of 15-18 



Manuring 15, 52-55 



nurse crop 28-29 



preparation of soil 18-22 



seeding 22-30 



Weeds in 48-52 



Mean's Grass. Same as John- 

 son Grass. 



Measuring hay in stack 220-224 



Medicago sativa. See Alfalfa. 



Millet as soiling crop 109 



in rotation with rye 106 



pasture 109 



preparation of soil 107 



seed, Yield of 110 



weight 110 



as feed 110-111 



seeding, rate 109-110 



soils, relation to 107 



Millet disease 122-124 



Millet hay, Curing 108 



Harvesting 110 



Stage to cut 108-109 



value of 119-124 



Millets 103-124 



Broom-corn (Panicum mili- 



aceum) 103, 114-116 



Foxtail (Chcetochloa sp.) 



103, 111-114 

 Japanese (Panicum crus-galli), 



103, 116-118 

 Texas (Panicum texanum), 



103, 118-119 



Millets and Hungarian Grasses, 



area 11,12 



distribution 11, 104,105 



yield 12 



Mixtures, Amount of each kind 



of seed in 23 



European idea of 150-151 



for Middle outh 21 



for wet lands 150, 193-194 



with timothy 82-87 



Northern States, Lawn grasses 



for 200-201 



Nurse crop 15, 17, 28-29, 84 



Oats, for hay 10 



for pasture 45 



Orchard-grass (Dactylis glome- 



rata) 154-163 



adaptability 21 



distribution 160-162 



feed value 158 



importance 16 



longevity 14, 159 



pasture 158-159 



seed, production 156 



seed, weight 162 



seed, yield 162-163 



PACK 



Orchard-grass, seeding, rate 163 



sod, Character of 157-158 



Stage to cut 33, 157 



with red clover 158 



Osterdamia matrella. See Ko- 

 rean Lawn- grass. 



"Other tame grasses," defined. 7 



area 12 



yield 12 



Panicle, defined 236 



illustrated 239 



Panicum ccmpressum. See Car- 

 pet-grass. 



crus-galli. See Barn-yard 



Grass and Japanese Millets. 



maximum. See Guinea Grass. 



miliaceum. See Broom-corn 



Millets. 



molle. See Par& Grass. 

 sanguinale. See Crab-grass. 

 texanum. See Colorado Grass. 

 Pard grass (Panicum molle), 190-191 

 Paspalumdilatatum. See Large 



Water-grass. 

 Pasture lands, Area of, in United 



States 2 



Pasture Mixtures 46-48, 178 



Pastures. See also Meadows and 

 Pastures and references un- 

 der individual grasses 43-48 



crops used 43 



on waste lands 47 



Tendency to dispense with, 



16,43-44 



Pasturing, Best method of 44-45 



in wet weather 46 



Pearl millet (Pennisetum spica- 



tum) 234-235 



Pencillaria. Same as Pearl Mil- 

 let. 

 Pennisetum spicatum. See Pearl 



Millet. 

 Phleum pratense. See Timothy. 



Plantain (Plantago sp.) 51 



Poa arachnifera. See Texas 



Blue-grass. 



compressa. See Canada Blue- 

 grass. 



macrantha. See Seaside Blue- 

 grass. 



nemoralis. See Wood Meadow- 

 grass. 



pratensis. See Blue-^niss. 

 serotina. See Fowl Meadow- 

 grass. 

 trivialis. See Rough stalked 



Meadow-grass. 



Polygonum sachalinense. See 

 >achaline. 



, 50, 108 



