beaver hay

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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the rank grass that grows in beaver meadows.

Quotations

1854

Beaver hay costs about as much as good hay in agricultural districts, but it is worth only half as much; and as some horses will not eat it. . . .

1896

These could live in the bush in summer, and on beaver hay, brush and sheaf oats in winter. . . .

1967

And even in 1966, the barns contain a goodly crop of beaver hay. . . .