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On the Cultivation of the Tall-Meadow-Oats (avenii 

 elatior) for pafkire and Hay ; — and on Gypsum and 

 Btone-Coal as a Manure, 



Communicated by the Rev. Dr. Henry Muhlenberg, of Lancajlcr 

 (Pennfylvania) to Dr. Mitchill, dated May 15, 1793. 



* Dear Sir, 



MY brother Frederick Auguilus Muhlenberg informed mc 

 you would be glad to fee fome feeds of the grafs he mentioned 

 and recommended to you at New-York. I have cultivated 

 the fame a number of years from imported feed, and find it, 

 after a great many trials of pretty near all other grafTes, the 

 earliefl:, lateft, and beft grafs for green fodder and hay. It 

 bloflbms in the middle of May, the fame time with the common 

 red clover, and the feed ripens a month after. Horfes, it is 

 true, do not like it green, at leaft not all of them, but eat it in hay. 

 Horned cattle prefer it to all other graffes. It will grow bed 

 In clover foil, and the leaves are from two to four feet high 

 before it bloflbms ; in the bloflbm the flalk rifes from five to 

 feven feet. It ought to be cut in bloflbm about the end of 

 Mayor beginning of June, and will yield an abundance of 

 fweet good hay. The feed may be fown in the fall or fpring, 

 with or without grain, and mufl: be bruflied in or lightly 

 harrowed. If mixed with clover, it will make uncommon good 

 tipland meadow. The name of the grafs is avcna elatior 



