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ANALYSES OF TRUE GRASSES. 



TABLE VI. ANALYSIS OF NATURAL GRASSES. (100 

 parts as taken green from the field.} 



A glance at the first column of Table VI. 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 flower- 

 ing, or the irrigated grasses. 



