AND OTHER FORAGE PLANTS. 



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da to contain more than the Blue grass. Here is in more de- 

 tail, Mr. Collier's proximate analysis of Cynodon dactylon : 



Oil, 



Wax, 



Sugars, 



Gum and dextrin, 



Cellulose, 



Amylaceous cellulose, 



Alkali extracts, 



Albuminoids, 



Ash, 



100.00 



From Alabama. 



1.23 

 .36 



8.17 



3.59 

 23.57 

 29.30 

 12.23 

 13.59 



7.96 



100.00 



ANALYSIS OP ASH. 



Potassium, 

 Potassium oxide, 

 Sodium, 

 Sodium oxide, 

 Calcium oxide, 

 Magnesium oxide, 

 Sulphuric acid, 

 Phosphoric acid, 

 Silicic acid, 

 Chlorine, 



From Georgia. 



6.66 

 22.99 



13.44 

 5.00 

 9.37 

 6.20 



30.29 

 6.05 



100.00 



From Alabama. 



9.61 



22.89 



.42 



100.00 



As hay this grass has been cured and held in high esteem by 

 many farmers in Mississippi for more than forty years. The 

 late Mr. Thomas Affleck of Texas, but for many years a well 

 known planter of Mississippi, with characteristic Scotch thrift 

 promptly recognized the value of this grass, largely profited by 

 it, and, as long as he lived, by mouth and pen inculcated its 

 great worth for pasture and hay, himself making five tons per 

 acre of the latter. Dr, Ravenelby the aid of nitrate of soda ob- 

 tained at the rate of ten tons per acre on a lot near Charleston, 

 S. C. Many other examples could be given as to the quantity 

 of hay cut from this grass and innumerable testimonials as to 

 its nutritive value. Having grown this grass only on worn 

 hill lands without fertilizers my crops have of course not been 

 so heavy as those mentioned ; but they have been entirely satis- 



