CONTENTS. 



Page 



ADVERTISEMENT xi 



PREFACE xv 



SECTION I. Of the mode in which the experiments were con- 

 ducted ; of the nutritive matter of grasses ; of the 

 seeds of grasses ; figures of the seeds ; of the 

 periods in which different grasses ripen their seed ; 

 directions for saving, and collecting the seeds of 

 the most valuable permanent pasture grasses, on 

 the farm, for the farmer's own supply ; of the 

 structure of grasses, and a glossary of the bota- 

 nical terms used in describing the different species 

 and varieties; a general arrangement and cata- 

 logue of the proper grasses ; of the soils employed 

 in the experiments, and of those best adapted for 

 the growth of the superior pasture grasses ; of the 

 means of improving inferior soils for the growth of 

 the most valuable grasses - 1 126 



II. Of the grasses, and other plants which constitute 

 the produce of the richest natural pastures ; of 

 the comparative weight of nutritive matter con- 

 tained in the leaves of the different species of per- 

 manent pasture grasses ; of the proportions in 

 which the seeds of the different species should be 

 combined ; of the proper quantity of seed to be 

 used per acre ; table of the number of distinct 

 plants which are found to occupy a given space of 

 ground in pastures differing from each other in re- 

 gard to the nature of the soil, or to productiveness, 

 or to the number of distinct species of grasses 

 which compose the pasture ; table of the number 

 of seeds contained in one bushel measure, and the 

 comparative weights of the seeds of different spe- 

 cies of grasses ; of sowing the seeds ; and of the 

 treatment of seedling grasses - - 127 255 



