Excerpt from A Manual of Farm GrassesIN all parts of the United States, forage plants are an important element in all kinds of farming that involve live stock. Even on farms devoted to special crops such as vegetables or fruits the use of farm animals may bring the question of forage into the foreground. For these reasons nearly all farmers and stockmen are interested in grasses. In those regions that have been long Settled, farm practice has included the use of certain grasses, the kind depending upon the region. The farmer is familiar with these grasses and understands their use and may need no further information upon these. It Often hap pens, however, that the farmer wishes to try other kinds of grasses Of which he has heard but with which he is not familiar. He may have read about them in farm journals or he may have seen them advertised in seed catalogues. Interested dealers or growers may, in their enthusiasm or greed, honestly or dishonestly recommend them in flamboyant language or with exaggerated praise.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis 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.