78 PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY PASTURES 



Sundry Plants used for Grazing, 

 Feeding, or making into Hay 



ACHILLEA MILLEFOLIUM 



{Yarrow, or Milfoil). 



Yarrow is neither a grass nor a clover, but a compositaceous 

 plant, like the daisy, the tansy, and the chamomile. As an 

 ever-present constituent of dry pastures it naturally claims 

 consideration here. The leaves are dense, elegantly fimbriated, 

 and the flowering time is after midsummer. The plant is 

 strictly perennial, and multiplies itself by root-growth. It 

 appears to be independent of the presence of potash in the 

 soil, and flourishes where clovers scarcely maintain existence 

 or fail entirely. 



Achillea Millefolium is adapted for pastures, not for 

 meadows, and seed should be excluded from any mixture for 

 a crop that is to be generally mown. Sheep are very fond of 

 the herbage, which is believed to impart an excellent flavour 

 to mutton, venison, and to butter also, notwithstanding its 

 astringent qualities. 



On dry gravels and hght sands that will scarcely support 

 any other plant Yarrow wiU grow, and no summer is too hot 

 for it. So great is its power of enduring drought that after a 

 dry season there is always a large demand for seed, and as this 

 is difficult to obtain of reliable germination, the price often 

 runs up to an extravagant figure. 



Ammonia salts appear to be inimical to the growth of 

 this plant, nitrate less so, but heavy doses of any ammoniacal 



