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other sorts, to act as fillers. It is a good pasture grass, especially for open wood- 
lands, and affords excellent grazing earlier than almost any other species. The 
aftermath is unequaled in amount by any of the grasses ordinarily cultivated 
for hay. When sown with other grasses, the tendency of Orchard-grass to form 
tussocks is much diminished and the sward greatly improved. Heavy rolling is 
also recommended for cheeking or preventing the tufted growth which this 
grass naturally assumes. By this operation the tufts are pressed down to the 
level of the other grasses and the turf becomes more uniform. In old, rich 
meadows of Orchard-grass it is advisable to harrow in the spring and lber war 
use the roller. Its best record of yield, made by Sinclair, was 27,905 pounds 
green, 11,859 pounds of hay, and 11,910 pounds of aftermath per acre. Sow 3 
to 4 bushels to the acre. Price of seed, 
as given in New York catalogues, $2 to 
$2.50 per bushel, which weighs about 14 
ounds. 
Dactyloctenium egyptiacum Willd. Crow- 
foot-grass; Egyptian-grass; Ah-ke-ti (Mo- 
have Indians). (Fig. 33.) 
This ste which is a weed munie iiy all 
mer countries of the world, has 
belle quite common in some of the 
3 States. It closely resembles the 
more co n Goose- grass or Duck’ — 
(Eleusine rut from which it diffe 
the terminal ilias 
akort and each d with a sharp pro- 
longation of the axis. It is usually found 
in eultivated fields, and often in such 
abundance as to displace the less vigorous 
native sorts, and is sometimes cut for 
hay. In parts of Africa where this grass 
is common a decoction is prepared from 
the seeds, which is used for inflammation 
of the kidneys. In Australia it is valued 
fo sture, and in India the grain is 
sometimes used atives 
in times ofscarcity. The Mohave Indians 
of California also use the grain for food, 
5 it and igre et flour into  FrG.33.—Crow-foot grass. (Dactyloctenium 
eakes or m ic. ae 
Danthonia californica Boland. California Oat-grass. 
A native of the Rocky Mountain regions and Pacific Slope, growing from 1 to 3 feet 
high. The largest, most leafy, and handsomest of our American species of 
Danthonia, often forming a considerable element of the forage of the so-called 
deer parks of the mountains and foothills. Nothing is known of its agricul- 
tural value 
Danthonia compressa Austin. Tennessee Oat-grass; Mountain Oat-grass. 
A slender, erect, tufted "€ usually growing to the height of about 2 ,eet, 
wi and narrow root-leaves, and few-flowered spreading panicle. It isa 
, 
it forms the chief bulk of the forage of the so-called * balds" or parks which 3 2 
common to mountains in the South. It is highly nutritious, as determined E 
by chemical analysis, as well as by its effect upon the stock grazing upon it. It : 
