320 



GRASSES OP IOWA. 



The following analyses of other states are added for com- 

 parison: 



SAMPLE FROM. 



Green fodder, in bloom (1) 



Iowa (2): 



Cut June 9, just out of bloom 



Cut April 29 



Cut May 10 



Cut May 20 



Cut May 30 



Cut June 9 



Louisiana (3) 



North Carolina (4) 



North Dakota (5) 



Oregon (6) 



Storrs, (Conn.) (7): 



Average 16 analyse! 



Utah (8): 



Average of 3 analyses 



bi)£ 



o *= 



13.30 



13.76 

 42.13 

 43.11 

 51.06 

 48.68 

 46.01 

 36.56 

 41.43 

 35.73 

 33.54 



13.60 



50.66 



Timothy {PJileum pratense), L. — The cultivation of timothy 

 (Phleum pratense) first began in America. Sinclair, in his Hortus 

 Gramineus Woburnensis says: "In the annual register for 1765 

 we find that it was much recommended about fifty years ago, 

 under the name of timothy grass, and Mr.Wynch is said to have 

 brought it from Virginia in 1763. " It received this name from 

 Mr. Timothy Hanson, who first brought its seed from New 

 York to Carolina. In America, at this time, it was also known 

 as Herd grass. In 1815 it was considered the best grass in the 

 province of Canada. Jessen, f in his work on the grasses of 

 Germany, gives the date of general introduction into that 

 country as 1815, but Peter Wynch in 1760, president of the 

 Agricultural Society of England, obtained the seed of this 

 grass and several others from North America. Its general 

 cultivation began in England soon after 1765. On the conti- 



U. S. Dept. of Agrl., Handbook E.xp. Sta. Work. 1893. 386. 



Bull. Iowa Agrl. Exp. Sta. 11:453, 476. 



Bull. La. Agrl. E.xp. Sta. II. 19. 



Bull. N. C. Agrl. Exp. Sta. 90. 



Bull. N. D. Exp. Sta. 15. 



Bull. Oregon Agrl. Exp. Sta. 1895. 39. 



Ann. Rept. Storrs Agrl. Exp. Sta , Conn. 1896: 280. 



Rept. Exp. Sta. Utah, 1893: 254. 255. 

 •Per cents given are all for water-free material except per cent of water. 

 tDeutschland's Griiser und Getreidearten. Leipzig. 43. 1863. 



