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The grafs is of a fwcct nature ; all cattle, and 

 even pigs, eat it very eagerly. When made into 

 hay, it is excellent, and improves beads gready. 

 The farmer fays his horfes will cat it in preference 

 to corn mixed with chafF, when both are fet before 

 them together. 



Should the Society wifli for further information 

 or afliftance, I Ihall be happy in doing every thing 

 in my power to promote their views. 



the meadow not o^'crflowe(^, the crop of grafs was not near fo large. 

 There did not appear to be any thing peculiar in the foil ; nor were the 

 other plants or weeds growing on it more luxuriant than in many 

 other fimilar fituations. Some of this grafs was fent to the Society at 

 Norwich; fomc ingenious members of which inform us, that they 

 think it is a fpecies of thp Agroftis Polymorpha, mentioned by Hudfoa 

 in his Flora Angl'tca, of which there are feveral f arietie^. 



Camden mentions, in his Britannia, a grafs growing near the pUcr 

 where this Is found, which iic calls trailing Dog^j-gra/s, and fays that 

 ** hogs were fed with it." 



yrom all the enquiry made, we have not found this fpecres of grafs 

 growing in any other part of the kingdom ; hence it is poifible that 

 there may be fomething in the foil of this meadow peculiarly favour- 

 able to its growth. 



We (hall not, however, determine on this point, but recomraenA 

 trials to be made of propagating it, by fowing the feed in other places, 

 fubjed\ to be overflowed in the fame manner. If it can be propagated 

 generally, it rauft turn out the moft profitable to the fanner of any 

 grafs yet difcovered, and be of great benefit to the community. 



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