Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1908-07-16
The RURAL SCHOOL
President Butterfied Discusses It's
Relation to the Community.
pistrlct Supe rintendents Get Close "a
Nature by a Trip on the Lake with
stop at Hun Point for q
Short Session.

The second day of the distr,c, sunor.
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80 N 'o"eS' WHO discussed
grasses and clovers lie stated that most
| farmers In n vague way. include tho
forage plants Of the pasture and meadow
! under the term grass. an Incorrect vie a.
| which has led to popular confusion Tbo
true grasses are more widely useful than
any other similar group of plants Thev
| include tho cereals and the main fora1e
and pasture plants. They are character
lied by slender stems with frequent so,id
Joints or nodes. The stems are usuall,.
| hollow but Sometimes solid The leaves
ar" slendcr bladed, clasping the stem
Ike n sheath above the nodes. Thcc.
arise one from each Joint in two oppo-
| site rows. The flowers are usually borne
on slender branches, forming open clus-
| ters or dense heads
! The hay and pasture grasses OF Yer
| mont are many In number, but Is only
deserve special mention; % being yalua :
BILE for hay or pasture and ak being
rated as weeds. The principal hay
grasses are timothy. orchard grass,
meadow fesciie, June grass or Kentucky
! blue grass, Canadian blue-grass. fowl
| meadow grass. red top, blue Joint, reed
canary grass and the mamma grasses
| The prominent weed grasses are quack
poverty grass, fox tail, barnyard and
crab grasses.
The clovers are not grasses They be-
| long to the pea family; are nitrogen
gatherers and well recognized and valua-
| bic adjunct to the farm economy, I'm
proving the animal ration and lettering
the soil in which they grow Interesting
| statements concerning the leaves. bios
| SONS. fruit and seed were made ana
| distinctions drawn between the vari >us
| clovers commonly grown in Vermont.
| Some little attention was paid likewise
| to the consideration Of alfalfa and one
or two other legumes Statements were
| made concerning the cultivation of grass
| and clover: the values of various grasses
| for pasture and other purposes and "a
to the impurities of grass and clover seed
The speaker stated that bulletin o. of
| the Vermont Experiment station. dealing
with Vermont grasses and clovers. is
| likely to be revised in the near f,tura
and Issued FOR distribution. It has beon
for some time practically ont az nr,nt
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