Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station (1896) (14767294452)

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Title: Annual report of the North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station

Year: 1896 (1890s)

Authors: North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station

Subjects: North Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station Agriculture

Publisher: (Raleigh, N.C.?) : Board of Agriculture

Contributing Library: State Library of North Carolina, Government & Heritage Library

Digitizing Sponsor: LYRASIS members and Sloan Foundation

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r pasture mixtures for moist soil. Wood Meadow Grass—Poa nemoralis.—A perennial grass of ratherlow and feeble growth. On all our plats it grew slowly and madea poor stand the second year. The third year it began to deterio-rate and gave way to Bermuda and Fescue grasses. Succeeds betterin moist woodlands and is valuable only for such places. Fertile Meadow Grass—Poafertilis.—A medium growing per-ennial grass resembling P. serotina. On our lowland plat it grewpoorly and failed to appear the second year. On the upland platit grew slowly and the second year made a fair turf. Much inferiorto P. pratensis. Poa sudetica.—A medium growing perennial grass resembling P.serotina. Not sown on lowland. Failed on upland plats. No value. Palmer Grass—Panicum Palmeri.—A tall growing broad-leavedannual grass native of tropical America. On our lowland plat itgrew rapidly, bearing broad but short leaves, from the root only.Produced an abundance of seed. Disappeared after the first season.

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Fig. 17.—Texas Blue Grass. TESTS OF FORAGE GRASSES. 53 Annual grasses are not of much value, and this is inferior to manywe already have. It is, therefore, scarcely worthy of introduction.Edible Panic—Panicum frumentaceum.—A tall and coarse grow-ing annual grass from Hindoostan. On our lowland plat this grewvigorously and produced a large amount of forage and seeds. It isprobably an improved variety of our common barn-yard grass—P.crusgalli. Both these grasses are semi aquatics and more valuableas food for fishes and water fowl than for other purposes Thisgrass is well worthy the attention of carp culturists. Louisiana Grass—Paspalum platycaule.—A low growing per-ennial grass native of the tropical regions of America. On our low-land plat all attempts to grow this grass both from seed and rootshave failed. Seems too tender for our climate. Not tried on up-land plats. Japanese Couch Grass.—Agropyrum Japonicum.—A tall-grow-ing, broad-leaved perennial grass, a native of A

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