7 STATISTICAL SURVEY 



management and clean culture, afford a plentiful Tap- 

 ply. A ftock of pure feeds might foon be procured, 

 by feparating the roots. 



The famous foreen-grafs, already mentioned as a 

 fubftitute for green food, I muft in this place make a 

 few more remarks upon." 



lu making roads through our mod fpongy and 

 \vorft of bogs, we frequently find this fpecies take 

 place naturally, in the courfe of two or three fea- 

 fons, in the bottoms and fides of water-tables and 

 ditches, and along the footways, between the gravel 

 and the edges of the fences. Upon fcouring thofe 

 drains and ditches in fpring, and cafting the fluff 

 with the mangled grafs In queftion upon the furface 

 of the bog, we find a ftrong permanent foil foon 

 formed. But I find, where this work has been per- 

 formed early in autumn, that the good effects of 

 fwarthing over fooner take place. The reafon is 

 plain, becaufc a dry fummer, following the fpring 

 operation, prevents many of the roots from ftriking 

 anew. Thefe obfervations, which are really far, 

 Ihew clearly, how much this femi-aquatic grafs might 

 be turned to our advantage, with little trouble or ex- 

 pence. I have frequently known this grafs to fhoot 

 upwards of twenty feet in a feafon, and produce 

 plenty of roots at every joint, which are always nu- 

 merous ; but in rich bogs, the joints arc further apart 



than 



