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FARMER'S BOOK OF Git ASS EH 



Mr. Collier's analyses of samples from three States follows: 



Oil, 

 Wax, 



Sugars, 



Gum and dextrin, 



Cellulose, 



Amylaceous cellulose, 



Alkali extract, 



Albuminoids, 



Ash, 



Texas, Georgia. Alabama. 



1.78 1.72 2.27 



.38 .35 .29 



11.92 13.29 8.69 



6.33 5.84 4.98 



31.29 22.38 21.53 



25.46 26.37 21.97 



.00 10.44 20.97 



13.72 13.28 12.23 



9.12 6.32 1&J 



100.00 100.00 100.00 

 ANALYSIS OF ASH. 



Potassium, 

 Potassium oxide, 

 Sodium, 

 Sodium oxide, 

 Calcium oxide, 

 Magnesium oxide, 

 Sulphuric acid, 

 Phosphoric acid, 

 Silicic acid, 

 Chlorine, 



Texas. 



9.52 



10.27 



1.26 



10.27 



4.10 



4.24 



2.69 



47.56 



10.09 



Georgia. 



7.39 

 24.79 



Alabama. 



4.55 



30.98 

 3.55 



11.10 

 5.57 



8.55 



9.84 



* 16.25 



9.61 



100.00 100.00 100.00 



A few planters encourage the growth of this grass on lots 

 specially assigned to it and mow regularly one, two or more 

 tons per acre per annum. 



DACTYLOCTENUIM. 



D. EGYPTIACUM, Crow-foot Grass. This grass very much 

 resembles the Eleusine in general appearance and character, 

 though not quite so nutritious and nice. The culms ascend 

 from a creeping base, bearing, at the top, usually four spikes 

 awn-pointed, and one or two inches long, the spikelets three- 

 flowered. The upper glume is awn-pointed and palets pointed. 

 The flattened culm of Eleusine bears from two to many spikes 

 two to five inches long, the lower ones scattered, spikelets six- 

 flowered, glumes and palets pointless. Mr. a Collier's analysis is 

 subjoined : 



Oil, 1.64 



Wax, .32 



Sugars, 10.96 



Gum and dextrin, 5.60 



Cellulose, 17.48. 



Amylaceous cellulose, 

 Alkali extract, 

 Albuminoids, 

 Ash, 



31.63 



16.46 



9.01 



6.90 



H/0.0'0 



