276 ALFALFA FARMING IN AMERICA. 
well. The taste of alfalfa gives them more appetite 
for orchard grass too. Orchard grass does not run 
and thicken up as does Kentucky bluegrass and 
brome grass and will not so soon crowd out the 
alfalfa. 
English bluegrass (Festuca elaitor) is the tall 
fescue grass growing from 2 to 4 feet high, and is 
a nutritious grass, and animals like it. It mixes 
admirably with alfalfa when it is to be grazed. It 
does not spread rapidly and in fact is not in its 
prime for several years after sowing. It thrives on 
the dry prairie lands of Kansas and Nebraska. It 
may be that there is no better grass for mixing with 
alfalfa than this. It has no bad qualities that the 
writer has seen. 
