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Orchard Grass. 
Rescue Grass. (Ceratochloa Australis 
or Bromus Shraderii). A forage plant 
from Australia. It grows during the 
winter. Sow the seed in the fall of the 
year, as it will not sprout as long as the 
ground is warm, Sow 1% to 2 bushels 
of seed to the acre. It is an annual 
winter grass. It varies in the time of 
starting growth. We have seen it ready 
for mowing the first of October, and 
furnish frequent cuttings till April. Again 
it may not start before January, nor be 
ready to cut until February. This de- 
pends upon the moisture and depression 
of temperature. 
Orchard Grass 
This is one of the best grasses for 
pasture. It grows quickly. Can be sown 
either in fall or spring. Sow from 1 to 
1% bushels per acre. It may be mowed 
from two to four times a year, according 
to season and treatment; yielding from 
one to three tons of excellent hay per acre 
on poor to medium land. In grazing and 
as hay, most animals select it in prefer- 
ence among mixtures in other grasses. 
After grazing, or mowing, few grasses 
grow so rapidly (three to six inches per 
week), and are soon ready again for tooth 
or blade. It is easily cured and handled. 
It is readily seeded and catches with 
certainty. Its long, deeply penetrating 
fibrous roots enable it to sustain itself 
and grow vigorously during droughts that 
dry up other grasses, except tall oat 
grass, which has similar roots and char- 
(Dactylis Glomerata). 
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Tall Meadow Oat Grass. 
acteristics. It grows well in open lands 
and forests of large trees, the underbrush 
being all cleared off. 
Tail Meadow Oat Grass. (Arrhena- 
therum Avenaceum). Evergreen grass 
in Virginia and other Southern States, 
and it is the Tall Oat (Avena Elatior) of 
Linaeus. It is closely related to the com- 
mon oat, and has a beautiful open panicle 
leaning slightly to one side. It is widely 
naturalized and well adapted to a great 
variety of soils. On sandy or gravelly 
soils it succeeds admirably, growing two 
to three feet high. On rich, dry upland 
it grows from five to seven feet high. It 
may be sown in March or April, 
mowed the same season; but for heavier 
yield it is better to sow in September or 
October. Along the more Southern belt, 
it may be sown in November and onward 
till the middle of December. Whenever 
sown it is one of the most certain grasses 
to have a good catch. Not less than two 
bushels per acre should be sown. 
English, or Perennial Rye _ Grass. 
(Lolium Perenne). This is the first 
grass cultivated in England, over two 
centuries ago, and at a still more remote 
period in France. It was long more 
widely known and cultivated than any 
other grass; became adapted to a great 
variety of soils and conditions, and a vast 
number (seventy or more) of varieties 
produced, some of which were greatly 
improved while others were inferior and 
became annuals. Introduced into the 
Frotscher’s Adam’s Early Corn is True to Name. 
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