Hay And Pasture Crops Grasses Clovers Etc Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from Farm Grasses of the United States: A Practical Treatise on the Grass Crop, Seeding and Management of Meadows and Pastures, Descriptions of the Best Varieties, the Seed and Its Impurities, Grasses for Special Conditions, Etc On the irrigated lands of the West, farmers are not particularly concerned about grass problems, except Where alkali has begun to appear. But there are im mense areas in the West at present unutilized, except in the primitive fashion of the herdsman on the open range, on which the problem is to find grasses that will produce a crop under arid or semi-arid conditions. In so far as the solution of this difficulty has been ac complished, the results are set forth in discussing the individual grasses. Attention is Called to investiga tions now in progress with a View to finding other grasses adapted to these hard conditions. The chapter on seeds was contributed by Mr. Edgar Brown, in charge of the Seed Laboratory of the United States Department of Agriculture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.