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For Hay and Pasture 
MEADOW FESCUE, ENGLISH BLUE GRASS (Fes- TIMOTHY (Phleum pratense). Timothy is the most 
tuca pratensis) is one of the most used grasses popular grass for hay and pasture purposes in 
for hay and for pasture. It succeeds best in high altitudes. It is easy to sow; does not require 
cold, moist, light soils, in low valleys rich in much seed per acre; starts growing quickly. It 
organic matter, and does not thrive on worn, has a high feeding value when cut at the proper 
dry land. It reaches its full development the sec- time. The average yield of timothy is 2 to 3 
ond and third years. It grows quickly after being tons of hay per acre. It is not a dry land crop. 
mown. The forage, either green or dried, is much 
relished by cattle and is very nourishing. It can ALSIKE and TIMOTHY mixed make a hay crop 
be recommended for lawns where Kentucky Blue much richer in feeding value than timothy alone. 
Grass would fail. Sown in the lawn, use 2 pounds Timothy ranks high as a hay and pasture grass 
to 100 square feet. but its value is enhanced when alsike is mixed 
with it. Alsike is one of the best clovers for 
ORCHARD GRASS (Dactylis glomerata) is a very hay; it is fine and very leafy. 
early and valuable grass for pasture and hay 
and affords more than one cutting per season. ALSIKE CLOVER (Trifolium hybridum) is undoubt- 
However, when only one crop is cut the under- edly the best high altitude clover for hay, being 
growth is very heavy and gives splendid and planted extensively throughout the Rocky Moun- 
rich pasture until late in the fall. It will with- tain regions at high altitude, where alfalfa winter- 
stand some drought and is hardy. Well suited kills. The stems are thin, bearing a thick growth 
for shady places such as orchards and groves. of leaves. It is a valuable forage crop sown 
It grows in tufts and is satisfactory for sowing alone or with timothy. 
with red clover, alfalfa and other grasses. 
REDTOP GRASS (Agrostis alba) is commonly used 
for hay, meadows, pastures and lawns. Belongs 
to the bent family. It grows rapidly and often 
thrives where Blue Grass fails. It does not com- 
pete with Blue Grass but supplements it; thriving 
in lime-poor and wet soils where Blue Grass is 
not at its best. It is useful in restraining the 
growth of weeds. 
REED CANARY GRASS is native to the northern 
part of the country and is a leafy coarse species 
growing 2 to 8 feet tall. It tends to bunch but 
spreads underground by creeping branches or 
root stalks. It is very palatable as pasturage 
and as hay. Naturally it is a grass for moist 
or wet land on river or lake banks subject to 
overflow. It starts to grow early in the spring 
and withstands pasturing well, if not grazed too 
closely. 
ALTA FESCUE or TALL FESCUE is a coarse peren- 
nial less palatable than Meadow Fescue. It 
makes big yields of hay. 


TALL OAT GRASS (Arrhenatherum Elatius) is © GazcC paAsTURE MIXTURE for irigatedaetand = 
succulent, high yielding bunch grass. It starts BicmemiGrcies, aSinlbaae OrchanseGrascmaeios| 
early in the spring and has value in grass Meadow Fescue, 6 lbs.; Legume (Alfalfa, Alsike 
mixtures under irrigated conditions or in areas Cloverr ReduCloveroniGweet-Clover), A.Jba: 
having high rainfall. 
MORTON’S PASTURE MIXTURE. The following has MIXTURE FOR ALKALINE LANDS. Experiments 
been a popular formula for a well balanced per- have shown that the following mixture gives fine 
manent pasture mixture on irrigated land: results on lands infested with alkali: 
Orchard Grass, 15 lbs.; Brome Gross, 15 lbs.; Paunde 
een ee a ee Sr eo Yellow Sweet Clover (Melilotus officinalis)... 6 
d Slender Wheatgrass (Agropyrum tenerum).... 8 
MIXTURE for Seepy Areas—Strawberry Clover, 2 Meadow Fescue or English Blue Grass........ 6 
lbs.; Alsike Clover, 2 lbs.; Brome Grass, 7 lbs.; Brome Grass or Bromus inermis...........006 6 
Reed Canary, 5 lbs. REG» OD! tercaieeeceeccccdsustectvessauetaseseseuteer ciisstecsseswesbee 4 
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