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Meadow Fescue (Festuca elatior pratensis). 
na fescue has given better results than any other large fescue tried in the North- 
est rives best on rich, moist bottom lands, and is an excellent grass for 
són for permanent meadows and pastures. It does not succeed well on dry 
upland or sandy soils, but can be used to advantage in seeding down sloughs or 
lake beds that have been drained. 
Meadow-rush (Scirpus atrovirens and 
var. pallidus). 7 155 
Wetsloughs. It is readily eaten by stock Wi W Y 
and occasionally occurs in consider- NY YW 2), 
able quantity in“ Slough-grass hay.” Y 2 Y sd 
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Meadow Trefoil (See Desmodium cana- 
Medicago sativa. (See Alfalfa.) 
Melica hallii, 
A fescue-like grass found on dry rolling y 
prairies. Probably of little impor- V 
tance as a fora \ Y 
Melilotus alba. (See White Sweet N y | 
Clover.) 
Mesquite. (See Bouteloua spp.) 
exican Wood-grass (Muhlenbergia 
mexicana). 
À common grass in moist soil in open 
woods and thickets. It yields con- 
siderable forage, which is very nutri- 
tious, and in certain localities is 
of some importanee in woodland 
pastures. 
Milk Vetch (fig. 6). (See Astragalus f 
adsurgens.) Fic. 6.—Milk Vetch (Astragalus adsurgens). 
Millet (Chetochloa italica and var. germanica). 
This is one of the widest-grown hay crops in the Northwest. It thrives on a variety 
of soils and gives abundant crops of coarse but nutritious forage. The best 
quality of hay is obtained by cutting just before blossoming, but after the heads 
are well formed. It gives better results when fed with other forage than when 
ted alone. It is a common practice to give one feed per day of millet hay and 
‘ one or two of timothy, prairie hay, or corn fodder. Millet requires but a short 
time in n which to reach maturity, and hence is an excellent crop for the North- 
w very long at best. The fact that it can besown 
late in the spring and still mature a good crop makes it a good plant to use in 
subduing weeds. Many different varieties are grown, but the forms of the so- 
called “German ” millets, as golden millet and Dakota millet, are preferred by 
farmers generally. Hungarian n grass (var. germanica) is often grown, but is not 
prized as highly as either the “common” or the German“ millet on account of 
the lighter yield and a tendency to remain in the soil for some years as a weed. 
Montana Sand-grass (Calamagrostis montanensis). 
A low-growing grass, inhabiting dry sandy soils. The root leaves are usually pro- 
duced in abundance and * furnish considerable pasturage early in the season and 
then ‘sun-cure’ on the buttes and hill-slopes, affording a large amount of winter 
feed." 
