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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...blue stems (Andropogon furcatus and A. nutans) are leafy perennial grasses that grow best along sloughs and bottom lands and on the moist upland soils. Twenty-live years ago they were confined mostly to the valleys, but as the country has become more thickly settled they have continued to spread over the uplands. They are now the dominant grasses of the humid prairies, contributing fully t50 per cent of the wild hay cut in the whole region. Bolh these grasses stand pasturing well, and bolh show such a preference for moist, loose soils that they will undoubtedly do well under cultivation. Hay cut from prairie meadows, where the blue stems predominate, is considered first class. Stock relish it, and eat it as well as they would the best tame hay. Chemical analysis shows that these grasses are very nutritious. The above table is a compilation of various analyses that have been made of hay of these two species grown in the prairie region. These species extend from North Dakota to Texas and east and west throughout the humid and semiarid belts. They are less abundant in the arid prairies and ranges, where their place is taken by the little blue stem or bunch grass (Andropogon scoparius). The latter is smaller and less leafy, and the stems become so hard and woody after flowering that cattle will not touch it as long as there is anything else to eat. When young, bunch grass makes good pasturage, but it is too much like the broom sedge of the South (4. virginicus) to ever be of much value. Switch grass, or false redtop (Panicum virgatum), extends over the whole prairie region, and grows both in the fertile valleys and on the more sterile and drier hills. It forms a considerable percentage of some hay, but ought to be cut before the stems get hard and woody. It mak...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 Excerpt: ...blue stems (Andropogon furcatus and A. nutans) are leafy perennial grasses that grow best along sloughs and bottom lands and on the moist upland soils. Twenty-live years ago they were confined mostly to the valleys, but as the country has become more thickly settled they have continued to spread over the uplands. They are now the dominant grasses of the humid prairies, contributing fully t50 per cent of the wild hay cut in the whole region. Bolh these grasses stand pasturing well, and bolh show such a preference for moist, loose soils that they will undoubtedly do well under cultivation. Hay cut from prairie meadows, where the blue stems predominate, is considered first class. Stock relish it, and eat it as well as they would the best tame hay. Chemical analysis shows that these grasses are very nutritious. The above table is a compilation of various analyses that have been made of hay of these two species grown in the prairie region. These species extend from North Dakota to Texas and east and west throughout the humid and semiarid belts. They are less abundant in the arid prairies and ranges, where their place is taken by the little blue stem or bunch grass (Andropogon scoparius). The latter is smaller and less leafy, and the stems become so hard and woody after flowering that cattle will not touch it as long as there is anything else to eat. When young, bunch grass makes good pasturage, but it is too much like the broom sedge of the South (4. virginicus) to ever be of much value. Switch grass, or false redtop (Panicum virgatum), extends over the whole prairie region, and grows both in the fertile valleys and on the more sterile and drier hills. It forms a considerable percentage of some hay, but ought to be cut before the stems get hard and woody. It mak...
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