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GRASSES AND FORAGE PLANTS. 



Table YII. Analysis of Natural Gj'asses. 

 frovi the field.) 



(100 parts as taken green 



A glance at the first column of table YII. will show a striking 

 difference in the percentage of water, it being as high as 80 in 

 some instances, while it falls as low as 60, and in one instance 

 to 51, without considering the second specimen of orchard 

 grass — in which the seed was allowed to ripen, when, of course, 

 the amount of water would be much less than at the period of 

 flowering — or the irrigated grasses. 



It will l)e noticed that those grasses whicli come earliest into 

 flower are generally the most succulent, though this is not uni- 

 formly the case. 



