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in Iowa with not very great success. Sinclair* says: "The 

 weight of hay produced from the grass of the flowering crop is 

 much less than that which is produced from an equal weight 

 of the seed crop. In Mr. Young's annals of agriculture we 

 are informed, that so long ago as the year 1785, Mr. Boys, of 

 Betshanger in Kent, a farmer of the highest reputation raised 



Fig. 155. Rough stalkPd meadow grass {Poa trivialis). 

 woodland meadows. (Dlv. of Agrost U. S. Dept. Agrl ) 



This Is a good grass for 



at much expense, and several years' attention, from twenty to 

 thirty bushels of the seed of this grass, which he then offered 

 for sale at three shillings per pound. He says that it makes 

 very fine, thick turf, and will produce a great quantity of very 

 excellent grass from moist, rich soils. It yearly diminishes, 

 and ultimately dies off, not infrequently in the space of four or 



*Hortus Gramlneus Woburnensis. 148-149. 



