OF THE COUNTY OF TYRONE. 55 



Inftead of green food, oat-chaff and fmall potatoes 

 are boiled together, which are well known to be 

 wholefome and nourifhing for cattle and pigs, and 

 never fail to encreafe the quantity of milk. The milk 

 is alfo encreafed by boiling hay in water, which en- 

 creafe is more or lefs, according to the quality of the 

 hay; the clofe jointed grafTes, in general, afford the 

 richeft hay-water, of which the bent grafTes form not 

 the leaft part. 



There is a fpecies of grafs very common in all low 

 fituations, and efpecially in rich bogs, called the creep- 

 ing bent grafs, the agroftis ftolonifera of Linnaeus : from 

 the faccharine and fucculent quality of this grafs, it is 

 extremely well fuited for making hay-water. The 

 natives call it the foreen-grafs ; the joints are very 

 numerous, and ftrike root at every one ; it creeps 

 along the furface to a great diftance, attaching itfelf to 

 the perpendicular fides of drains and bog-holes, or 

 any other fituation, where its numerous roots may 

 chance to grafp. The beft way of encreafing it is, 

 to cut the hay with a knife, or rather with a ftraw- 

 cutter, which if fown like hayfeeds, in moift fituations, 

 and covered with about half an inch of rich boggy 

 foil, in moift weather, every joint will fucceed, as I 

 have more than once experienced. 



It is not eafy to collect the feed pure, nor is it apt 

 to ripen well. A fuller defcription under the article, 

 Natural grafts, which fee. 



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