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BULLETIN 68. 
The report for 1895 mentions only the Bromus and Or¬ 
chard grass as making good showing that season. 
The varieties tested in addition to those above mention¬ 
ed since the writer took charge in 1898 are, the Tall Oat 
grass and Meadow Fescue (Festuca elatior) sometimes call¬ 
ed English Blue grass. 
Bromus inermis has been quite extensively reported 
upon in Bulletin 61 and the reader is referred to it for in¬ 
formation. It may be said that the results in 1901 confirm 
the report made of it in bulletin 61. 
Orchard grass, Tall Meadow Fescue, Tall Oat grass 
and Blue grass comprise the list of grasses that may be 
profitably grown here for pasture. 
orchard grass. (Dactylis glomerata .) 
This grass is uniformly successful in the Arkansas val¬ 
ley, whether sown on the dry uplands, in timber claims or 
in moister lands. It is a tall grass growing in clumps but 
is valuable for either pasture or hay. It may be sown 
profitably with alfalfa. It matures with the first crop and 
would improve the quality of the hay for feeding horses. 
This grass is easily started and does not need nursing 
to get it established; it resists drouth and hot weather 
well. It is one of the first things to appear in the spring. 
When pastured off, it soon starts growing again. 
Owing to its nature to grow in tussocks, it is advisable 
to sow some other grass with it to occupy the intervening 
spaces. Either the Tall Oat grass or the Tall Fescue is 
adapted to the purpose, preferably the latter. 
Orchard grass, like many others here, does not fail to 
grow some during the hot weather. It also stands irriga¬ 
tion well, not becoming sod bound. 
About 25 pounds of seed per acre should be sown. 
tall meadow fescue. (.Festucci elatior .) 
This grass is sometimes called English Blue grass. In 
ordering the seed of this grass it must not be confounded 
with another grass called Meadow Fescue (F. pratensis) in 
the catalogues. 
The latter kind has never been successful at the station. 
Tall Fescue has not been under trial so long as the Or¬ 
chard grass but its value has been fully demonstrated to the 
uplands of this section. It forms a thick vegetation and is 
so persistent as to gradually thicken up; the seed shoot 
growing about two feet in height. 
Reports from the Kansas Experiment Station speak 
well of it. 
