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It thrives both on heavy and poorer soils and has, also like all 

 the family, the bad habit of forming great clusters of roots moving 

 in every direction and producing there -new shoots everywhere, 

 thus easily pushing away all other varieties. As long as the varieties, 

 thus subdued and wiped out, are of inferior agricultural and nutritive 

 value, it won't do much harm. However, where it destroys the better, 

 far more valuable varieties, it might be a point of consideration, 

 whether at-all it should be put in mixtures for permanent pasture. 



Our advice would be to use it only in such mixtures that are 

 destined to create permanent pasture on lighter, poorer soils, where 

 the other better grasses stand a poor chance only to thrive. 



Broniiis erectns or pratensis {Meadow Bromegrass). A tall 

 35 to 40 inches high growing grass, forming even tufts, and produc- 

 ing an average quantity of foliage and stems of no great nutritive 

 value. It thrives on light soils, especially on those poor in chalk, 

 where other grasses would not do. It tends to go rather hard if, 

 in the case of hay-making, it is not being cut in due time, i. e. 

 either before or when the plants are flowering early in June. 



On account of its rather limited value, it should be used on 

 lighter, sandy soils only with the aim of getting the largest 

 possible yield of an average fodder there where nothing better can 

 be obtained. 



As practically all sorts of stock are not fond of it, this seed 

 should not be used in mixtures destined for good soils, as there 

 it would, on account of its tendency to spread and crowd out 

 everything else, soon push away the far better, more valuable 

 grasses. * 



Bromus inerinis (Awnless Bromegrass or Hungarian Fodder) 

 A tall 30 to 40 inches high growing and subterraneously creeping 

 grass. It flowers about middle of June and produces an abundance 

 of stalks and foliage. The former, however, tend to go hard very 

 soon indeed and the plants are, therefore, not so well-liked by cattle. 

 It is horses only, that care for it and eat it eagerly. If destined 

 for hay-making, it should be cut before flowering-time as, otherwise, 

 it goes too hard. 



It does not require a heavy, good soil, but thrives there where 

 the better, more valuable varieties would not do well. The nutri- 

 tive value is rather under average and, though we consider it the 

 best of the Bro/nus-varieties, it belongs therefore to the second 



