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SELECTION OF PASTURE PLANTS 



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Sheep's fescue-grass 



Tall oat-grass 

 Hard fescue-grass 



Meadow foxtail-grass 

 Sweet vernal-grass 

 Yellow oat-grass 

 Crested dogstail-grass 

 ■Cocksfoot-grass 

 Meadow fescue-grass 

 Perennial rye-grass 

 Italian rye-grass 

 Timothy 



Classification by Hay 



Mediocre Quality. 

 I Yarrow 



Medium Quality. 



Tall fescue-grass 



Excellent Quality. 



Smooth-stalked meadow-grass 



Rough-stalked meadow-grass^ 



Wood meadow-grass 



Lucerne 



Trefoil 



Sainfoin 



Red clover 



White clover 



Alsike clover 



The Best Grasses 



. The following table, prepared by Mr. Carruthers from Mr. David Wilson's 

 experiments, contains very valuable information about 15 of our common 

 grasses. "The figures may be held to represent quantity or money value. 

 Thus, if a given area produces 100 tons of green food when sown with Cocks- 

 foot, it would yield 49 tons with Perennial rye-grass, and only 1 7 tons with 

 Sheep's fescue. Or, if the feeding value of the produce of a given area in 

 Cocksfoot is worth 100^., in rye-grass it would be worth 525., and in Sheep's 

 fescue 30^." 



In Mr. Carruthers' judgment, the grasses marked with an asterisk are not 

 deserving to rank in the first places. 



Relative Value of the quantity produced in a Year on an equal space of 

 ground and of the feeding value of that quantity of the following 

 Grasses : — 



Name of variety. 



Cocksfoot 



*TaIl oat-grass 



Meadow foxtail 



Tall fescue 



*Sweet vernal 



*Yellow oat-grass 



Meadow fescue 



Timothy 



* Rye-grass 



* Wood meadow-grass 



Rough-stalked meadow-grass . 

 Smooth-stalked meadow-grass. 



"Crested dogstail 



*Hard fescue 



"Sheep's fescue 



