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might be repeated on a good bite every fifth day. * It is suited to 

 all arable soils. The seed is easily gathered, but on account of its 

 peculiar lightness (the bushel weighing but twelve to fourteen 

 pounds) the seed should be spread on a floor and sprinkled with 

 water a day or two before it is sown, that it may swell and more 

 readily vegetate. Sow two bushels on an acre with barley or other 

 spring grain.'" Some recommend as much as three bushels per 

 acre. 



Arthur Young, to whom belongs the credit of having drawn to 

 the culture of grasses in England the attention they deserve, speaks 

 in high commendation of this grass, and took great pains to induce 

 farmers to adopt its cultivation, and particularly as a substitute for 

 Rye grass with clover. 



Col. Powell of Pennsylvania, a breeder of fine animals, and a 

 gentleman of scientific attainments, travel and nice observation, says, 

 " I have tried Orchard grass for ten years. It produces more pas- 

 turage than any artificial grass I have ever seen in America." 



Poa annua — Annual Speargrass. Very common by roadsides 

 and in pastures, especially in the moister pastures. The estimation 

 in which it is held varies greatly both among scientific men and 

 practical farmers. 



Mr. Flint in his work on grasses, says — " This modest and beau- 

 tiful grass flowers throughout the whole summer, and forms a very 

 large part of the sward of New England pastures, producing an early 

 and sweet feed, exceedingly relished by cattle." 



Prof. Buckman says — "In an agricultural point of view, this 

 grass may be considered as a weed, as it has scarcely any feeding 

 properties ; and though it sometimes presents an apparently green 

 turf over alluvial flats, and anywhere with a muddy subsoil, such 

 grass affords as the farmers say ' no heart ' in it. On some land of 

 Lord do Mauley's, celebrated for scouring cattle, this grass was a 

 prevailing one." 



Poa trivialls — Rough Stalked Meadow Grass. This is less 

 common than the Poa pratejisis, and may be distinguished from it 

 by the sheaths being rough and the roots being fibrous. It is found 

 only in soils which are quite moist. Sinclair, Parncll. and some 

 other writers, speak very highly of the properties of this grass, but 

 there is reason to believe that it has been overestimated. It is very 



