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AMERICAN AGRICULTURE. 



Fig. 15), and THE FLOATING FESCUE (F.fluitans, Fig. 16), 

 are all indigenous to this country, and good pasture grasses. 

 The two last are good hay grasses, though the former is rather 

 diminutive. 



FIG. 14. 



FIG. 15. 



Fio. 1(3. 



The floating, fescue requires to grow in a very wet and 

 strong clay soil, when it will be found to yield a large burthen 

 of nutritive forage. The seeds are small but abundant, 

 sweet and fattening. All fowls are fond of the seed, and all 

 animals of the seed and herbage. 



ORCHARD OR COCK'S FOOT GRASS (Dactylis glomerata, 

 Fig. 17) is indigenous, and for good ara- 

 ble soils, and especially for such as are 

 shaded, it is one of the most profitable 

 grasses grown. It should be cut for hay 

 before it is ripe, as in seeding it becomes 

 coarse and hard, and is less acceptable to 

 cattle. It is ready for the scythe with the 

 clover, and after cutting, it immediately 

 springs up and furnishes three or four crops 

 of hay, or constant- pasturage throughout 

 the season. It should be fed closely, to se- 

 cure a tender, succulent herbage. The 

 seed is remarkably light, weighing 12 or 

 FIG. 17. 15 lb s> P er bushel. Twenty to thirty pounds 



are usually sown upon one acre ; yet ten pounds on finely- 

 prepared soils have been known to produce a good sod, over 

 the entire ground. It flourishes from Maine to Georgia. 

 AMERICAN OR SWAMP COCK'S FOOT (D. cynosuroides) is 



