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permanency. This grass is making fair'progress with 

 me this season, notwithstanding the dry weather ex- 

 perienced during the months of May and June. The 

 seed of Meadow Fox Tail is covered with the soft and 

 woolly husks of the flower while the large glume is 

 furnished with an awn, these peculiarities account for 

 the small weight of a bushel of its seeds. A bushel 

 of seed only weighs 5 pounds. About 2 pounds of 

 seed is sufficient to enter into a mixture with other 

 grass for permanent meadow or pasture. 



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TALL OAT GRASS. 



Arrlienatlierum Avenaceum — Specific Character, 



■ Spikelets, open panicled; two flowered, lower 

 ■flov/er staminate, bearing a long bent awn below the 

 j^giniddle of the back; leaves, flat, acute, roughish on both 

 jaicddes, most on the inner; panicle leaning slightly on 

 |.^ one side; glumes, very unequal; stems, from two to 

 * three feet high; root, perrennial, flbrous, sometimes 

 te. bulbous. Observations. This grass is the avena 

 ^^ elatior of Linneiis. Flowers from May to July, 

 gv,. Way's Analysis. 



9^ 100 parts as taken green from the field July 17th. 



the^Vater 72.G.> 



if tUbuminous or flesh forming principles 3.54: 



Pas^'atty matter 87 



Jj^gleat producing principles, starch, sugar, gum, etc 11.21 



grgSVoody fibre • 9.37 



use-Jineral matter or ash 2.36 



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