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that we really derive much profit from ; therefore, we are deeply 

 interested in the culture of the apple and grass. I offer that 

 remark as an apology for the questions put to the gentleman. 



Mr. Gould. I cannot tell with certainty, in winter, but as I 

 rode along I saw some sod in several places which I thought was 

 certainly Kentucky blue grass. It had the shape and form of 

 leaf, and I took it for granted it was Kentucky blue grass — not the 

 blue joint. Doesn't Kentucky blue grass grow in Maine ? 



Mr GtOODale. Yes sir. It is very common, but it does not at- 

 tain such luxuriance as in Kentucky. 



Mr. Gould. Certainly it does; and I have heard of a growth 

 of the meadow foxstail here in Maine taller than I ever heard of 

 elsewhere. If it is not diffused throughout the whole of Maine, 

 I have no doubt it may be. 



Mr Goodale. I suppose the gentleman refers to a statement 

 which I made to him some years ago, regarding an extraordinary 

 growth of the Alopecurus pralensis which I once saw in this State. 

 In 1861 1 went along the seacoast of Maine frum Kittery to Quoddy 

 Head, for the purpose of investigating our resources in the matter 

 of marine manures. Being on an island near Eastport, where 

 herring were taken in large quantities, for the oil and manure 

 which they yielded, I noticed near the oilworks a field of what 

 appeared to be timothy, yet hardly had the usual appearance, and 

 what struck me first as singular was that it had headed out so 

 early, and in a locality where vegetation was later than in most 

 parts of the State. So I walked toward it and found it, not tiru- 

 otliy, but meadow foxtail ; and much larger than I ever before saw 

 this grass anywhere. Upon walking into it, I found the heads 

 reached above my vest pocket, and upon measuring this height 

 afterwards, I found it about four feet. I had reason to believe 

 that the land where it grew had been manured with the liquid 

 pressed out of the fish ; but I was not then able to verify the sup- 

 position, the owner being absent. I noticed in the very valuable 

 paper which Mr. Gould furnished for the Transactions of the New 

 York State Agricultural Society for I860, that he speaks of it as 

 much esteemed in Maine as a meadow grass. I did not so intend 

 to be understood, but rather that this case was an exceptional one. 

 In no other case have I seen it much over two feet high, and 

 oftener a foot and a half. It is not common in meadows, within 

 my observation, but if occasionally seen by roadsides, in moist, 

 rich places, and sometimes in pastures. The liquid which passes 



