34 PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY PASTURES 



BROMUS INERMIS 

 (Awnless Brome Grass, or Hungarian Forage Grassy 



In the South-east of Europe Hungarian Forage Grass is 

 much used and produces an extraordinary amount of fodder. 

 The plant is also largely grown in several parts of North 

 America, where it endures both heat and cold, thriving where 

 no other grass of any value can be relied on. In this country 

 it is not indigenous, but aU kinds of stock eat it gi-eedily, even 

 in preference to Italian Rye Grass. Compared with that grass, 

 Bromus inermis starts earlier in spring, yields quite double the 

 crop at the first cut, and the analysis made by Dr. J. Augustus 

 Voelcker shows the Bromus to be the richer in albuminoids 

 and nitrogen. 



The plant is perennial, grows rapidly, and yields an 

 immense quantity of succulent herbage. Seed is usually sown 

 alone for a forage crop, but unfortunately the germination in 

 the open is rather capricious, even after the usual tests have 

 proved satisfactory. 



BROMUS SCHR^DERI 



(Schrceder s Brome Grass). 



Although Bromus Schrcederi is not a native of Britain, and 

 cannot claim to be strictly perennial, it is a valuable forage 

 plant, remarkable for its habit of free growth in early spring 

 and late autumn. The coarse herbage is very sweet, nutritious, 

 and is readily eaten by stock. Constant mowing or grazing 

 is the secret of successful culture, and the growth should not 

 be allowed to attain a greater height than eighteen or twenty 

 inches ; four or five crops will then be produced in a year. In 

 warm moist seasons especially its usefulness will be manifested. 

 Several years ago I saw a field of Schrasder's Brome Grass 

 which kept an extraordinary head of sheep penned on it. The 



