Java Farm 
CULTIVATED FIELD TYPES 
20. Pasture. 
Single pasture, grazed by dairy 
herd. Gentle south-facing slope, 
bordered on 3 sides by Cheston Creek 
drainage. Flora of Andropogon 
virginicus, Digitaria ischaemun, 
Trifolium repens, Taraxacum off- 
icinale, other forbs. 
No counterpart. 
No counterpart. 21. Cropland. 
Cultivated to corn, barley, wheat, 
and sorghum. Wild flora mostly 
Ipomoea purpurea, I. hederacea; also 
(vernal): Stellaria media, Draba verna, 
Lepidium spp., Barbarea spp., 
Cerastium spp., etc. and (autumnal) 
Aster spp.3; restricted or infre- 
quent species: Datura stramoniun, 
Echinochloa pungens; Setaria 
lutescens often abundant near borders. 
One field on Scaffold Peninsula, 
described in text as "abandoned 
wheatfield" (since recultivated) 
was fallow 3 yrs. (1963-66); 60 
species were found there in 1966, 
especially Oenothera biennis, O. 
fruticosa, Gnaphalium obtusifoliun, 
Cerastium viscosum, Dianthus armer- 
ia, Hypericum perforatum, Ambrosia 
artemisiifolia. Locally dense 
Trifolium pratense and T. hybridum. 
Woody species found under forbs: 
Campsis radicans dense; Quercus 
velutina, Prunus serotina, and 
Vitis sp. few. 
