40 PERMANENT AND TEMPORARY PASTURES 



BROMUS INERMIS 

 (Awnless Brome Grass, or Hungarian Forage Grass). 



This grass is much used in the South-east of Europe, 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, of which it is not 

 a native, all kinds of stock eat it greedily, 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 for me 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 



(Schroder's Brome Grass). 



This grass is not a native of Britain, and cannot claim 

 to be strictly perennial. Still, it is a valuable forage plant. 

 The herbage, although harsh, is very sweet and nutritious, 

 and is readily eaten by stock. The plant is remarkable for 

 its habit of free growth in early spring and late autumn. 

 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 use- 

 fulness will be manifested. Several years ago I saw a field 

 of Schroder's Brome Grass which kept an extraordinary head 



