148: PRACTICAL NOTES ON'GRASSES -AND GRASS GROWING. 
Being earlier than Timothy, it is better.adapted to sow with 
trefoil or red clover mixtures, and if cut continually and well 
fed down after the first hay cutting, it will continue to produce: 
an abundance of feed in almost any weather; but the cutter 
should at once be run over it if many wiry seed-heads begin to 
spring up, as stock may feed it down in its young state, but 
they will not look at it when it is old; nor do they seem to 
relish it before the winter frosts have sweetened it. 
Hungry ewes, for instance, will eat it if they are kept short 
enough to make them keep it down throughout, and in the 
early spring, when keep is short, it is useful for cattle, which 
will then thrive fairly well on it. 
Hence one may draw the conclusion that for lands which 
are likely to be perpetually worried, by reason of a shortage of 
pasture, it is a valuable grass, but upon the ordinary permanent 
pasture it is nothing more nor less than a curse. 
Cocksfoot amongst seedsmen will ever be a favourite ; it is 
one of the most certain grasses to take in almost any soil 
under all circumstances, and it constantly keeps growing, 
punish it how one may. 
Hay made from it (when old) is of little, if any, value. 
From time to time large quantities of seed are imported 
from New Zealand, also from North America, but we believe 
it is indigenous to this country, although it varies considerably 
in localities. When once known it is not easily mistaken. 
A pound of good cocksfoot seed is estimated to contain 
over 400,000 germinating seeds, and an imperial bushel would 
weigh about 21 lb. 
Fiorin, OR CREEPING BENT Grass (AGROSTIS ALBA, OR 
AGROSTIS STOLONIFERA, LINN.). 
The boundary between wild and cultivated plants, like 
everything else in nature, is sometimes so narrow that it is 
