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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



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root, that of the June grass is creeping. It flourishes in moist 

 meadows where it flowers in July. Introduced. This grass is 

 seen in Fig. 26, while Fig. 27 represents a flower somewhat 

 magnified. 



This is a valuable grass 

 to cultivate in moist, 

 sheltered soils, possess- 

 ing very considerable nu- 

 tritive qualities, coming to 

 perfection at a desirable 

 time, and being exceed- 

 ingly relished by cattle, 

 horses and sheep. For 

 such soils it should form 

 a portion of a mixture of 

 seeds, producing, in mix- 

 ture with other grasses 

 which serve to shelter it, 

 a large yield of hay, far 

 above the average of 

 grass usually grown on 

 a similar soil. It should 

 be cut when in seed and 

 not in the flower. Seven 

 pounds of seed to the 

 acre will produce a good 

 sward. The grass loses 

 about seventy per cent, of 

 its weight in drying. Its 

 hay contains about one 

 and sixty hundredths per 

 cent, of azote, and the nu- 

 tritive qualities of the lat- 

 termath exceed very con- 

 sideraljly those of the crop 

 cut in the flower or in the 

 seed. 



Wood Meadow Grass, (^poa nemoralis,') is met with in Hamp- 

 shire and Berkshire counties. It grows from eighteen inches 

 to two feet high, has a perennial, creeping root, an erect stem, 



Fig. 27. 



Fig. 26. Rough Stalk Meadow Grass. 



