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CHAPTEE V. 



LESS IMPORTANT MINOR PRODUCE. 



THE most important items of minor produce have been dealt 

 with in the preceding chapters, but there are various other 

 products of the forest soil, which are more or less useful. 

 Most of these are leased by area, either of the whole forest or 

 certain parts of it ; permission is given to collect others 

 gratis. Not unfrequently, however, it should first be decided 

 whether utilization will be injurious to the game in the forest, 

 for permission given to persons to wander all over a forest in 

 search of petty products may give rise often to irregularities. 

 The following items of produce will be referred to : 



Grass-seeds. Mosses. Edible Fruits. 



Herbage for various Edible Fungi. Other Products. 

 Industrial Purposes. 



1. Grass-seeds.* 



The frequently abundant growth of grass on clear-cuttings, 

 forest-roads and other places has been described already, 

 nearly all the species of grass occurring that are found in 

 pastures. As meadow-grasses are cut for hay when in full 

 blossom, meadows do not afford grass-seed ; but in forests, 

 grasses may be allowed to ripen their fruit and thus afford a 

 useful agricultural product. The collection of grass-seeds is at 

 present in many forests a matter of importance, employs many 

 people and yields a fair revenue. 



The species, which, as good meadow-grasses, are chiefly 

 in demand for seed, may be classified as gregarious, light- 



* (i. Kothc, "Sjiinrln <k>r < irassaineii in <k-ii Waldun^en," St ut t-art. 187.1. 



