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Show DISCOVER STOCK FEED FOR WINTER GROWS AT SEASON OF SCARCE FEED Our attention was called recently to an article in Dapper's farmer, veiling veil-ing of a grass which has been discovered discov-ered in Oregon, and which thrives in .winter after being dormant in summer. sum-mer. It would seem that cultivation of this grass here would prove to be just the thing for winter feed when alfalfa is exhausted and animals are forced to forage along the highways. The article is as follows: 'For several seasons C. C. Hoover, of the Hanley & Hoover Farms, Jackson Jack-son county, Oregon, noticed a grass , which seemed to be getting a foothold on the farm and was for awhile considered con-sidered a noxious grass. But Mr. Hoover observed that his cattle in fact, all of his stock, from horses to hogs displayed partiality for this grass and also that they thrived on it. In 1926 Prof. F. C. Reimer, of the Southern Oregon Experiment Station, identified this grass as Poa Bulbosa, a member of the bluegrass family, but its habits are nearly the reverse of the famous Kenntucky bluegrass. It is a dormant summer plant, but after af-ter first fall rains its starts to grow and, in Southern Oregon, it flourishes thruout the winter and supplies a splendid fall, winter and early spring pasture. It is in this reversion of the usual processes of the vegetable kingdom king-dom that its chief claim to distinction lies, for, while other perennials are dormant this bulbous bluegrass comes forth in all its luxurance and pres- ' puts its virtues to the animal kingdom, king-dom, when succulent feeds are at their ebb. Last April Mr. Hoover pastured 5 dairy cows to the acre on a field of Poa Bulbosa and filked them heavi-ily. heavi-ily. He also has pastured this grass luring the winter and from the same i'ield harvested an abundant crop of bulblets in the spring. Nothing could letter prove the hardiness of this grass. In fact, the plow or the spring .ooth harrow seem to be the only detractive de-tractive agencies to which it will uccumb. By sowing this grass in alfalfa it is lossible to abtain an all-winter pasture, pas-ture, an abundant crop of Poa Bulbosa Bul-bosa seed, as well as the usual three i-uttings of alfalfa hay. Poa Sulhosa is nourishing to live-:-tock, provides pasturage when all other grasses are dead or dormant and makes an excellent hay.' |