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reasoning should be built; but whilst I should of course be the 

 last to under-rate their value, I do not consider that sucli data 

 are sufficient in themselves to settle the controverted points; and 

 indeed, however much may be the labor and time bestowed upon 

 them, one such set of results is inadequate to convince us that 

 very considerable variations in composition might not be found 

 in the same plants, under different circumstances of soil and cli- 

 mate. But at the same time, whilst the trifling differences in 

 composition between specimens of one and another kind of grass, 

 as shown in these tables, will not be insisted upon, we have fairly 

 a liijrht to call attention to those broad lines of distinction which 

 are to be fonnd there. I shall, however, do this very shortly, 

 leaving to the reader, who cares to do so, to study for himself the 

 results which I have obtained, and to see how far they agree with 

 his practical experience of tlie feeding and fattening value of the 

 different grasses examined. 



TABLE V. — Analyses of Jfatural Grasses, {in 100 parts of the 



grassj dried at 212^, Fahrenheit.) 



NAME OF PLANTS. 



Aiithoxairhnin odoratum, 



Aloptcurus pr.it ns 8 



Airciiiithrrum avcnaeeura, 



A vi;U;i flavihce' s, 



A veii.a pubt'sccns, 



Briz I uiedi.i, 



Broiiiiis I'lectn.s, 



iJromus lU'dlis 



C3'no-urus c istatus, 



Dact3"lis ^rlomenita, 



•' sc ds ripe, 



F''S'nca diiriu ;c'ala, 



II >l'.'iis hmatus, 



llot'ltuia I r.itcnse, 



T.oliufn pereniie, 



Loliutn italicuin, 



I'hlfum l.ri\tt•n^'e, 



1* a nnniia, 



)'' :i pr ilen-=is, 



Will fi\ ialis, 



Grass from wafer meadow, 



^ ^ second cr op, 



