124 PRACTICAL NOTES ON GRASSES AND GRASS GROWING. 
Rip Grass (PLANTAGO LANCEOLATA). 
When dealing with pernicious weeds we had occasion to 
refer to rib grass, and we pointed out how obnoxious it was on 
good mix-soiled land on account of its tendency to outgrow 
and smother other grasses; but on poor light landed soils, 
where little else will thrive, rib grass may be cultivated, and is 
often considered a valuable crop for sheep feeding. On this 
land it will stand for years, and will yield any quantity of 
sheep feed, but the hay is of little (if any) value. 
It is seldom sown alone, generally being mixed with ryegrass 
and trefoil. The seed is mostly procured by screening clover 
seed, and as it is sold as refuse, it is naturally cheap. When 
we remind the reader that this is the grass with which 
we in childhood’s days were wont to play at the game of 
“fighting cocks,” we think a further description of the plant 
unnecessary. Sown in April, ro to 14 lb. per acre will be 
found ample. 
BuRNET (POTERIUM SANGUISORBA). 
This plant is sometimes found growing with sainfoin, and 
people are wont to labour under a misapprehension as to its 
value. It is not until sainfoin commences to run to seed 
that the dissimilarity between the two becomes apparent, the 
latter (burnet) produces a quantity of useful food, and is not 
difficult to eradicate. It is not extensively cultivated, because 
sainfoin is distinctly the better plant of the two. 
