AND OTHEK FORAGE PLANTS. 

 ANALYSIS OF ASH. 



Potassium, 

 Potassium oxide, 

 Sodium, 

 Sodium oxide, 

 Calcium oxide, 

 Magnesium oxide, 



7.50 

 21.20 



20.67 

 6.91 



Sulphuric acid, 

 Phosphoric acid, 

 Silicic acid, 

 Chlorine, 



49 



4.42 



8.37 



24.17 



6.76 



100.00 



LEPTOCHLOA. 



L. MUCRONATA, Feather Grass. 



This grass is an annual, having long, broad, rough leaves 

 with hairy sheaths, and culms two to three or more feet high, 

 the latter terminating in panicles one or two feet long, with 

 many slender elongated branches, bearing the small spikelets 

 altogether presenting a peculiarly light feathery appearance of 

 great beauty. It grows on cultivated lands and especially 

 where Eleusine grows well. Its growth is very rapid, although 

 it has little root and it is easily uprooted. 



. After its attractiveness to the eye and roughness to the touch, 

 the next most striking property of this grass is its lightness even 

 in its greenest state. Although it contains a good per centage 

 of nutritious matters, it is of little agricultural value. Its as- 

 surgent leaves and stems and immensely large panicles occupy 

 so much space that a comparatively small number of plants 

 would occupy an acre of land, while it has so little weight that 

 the product of several acres of the finest growth of it would be 

 required to produce a single ton of hay. Stock eat it with rel- 

 ish when unmixed ; but in grazing horses reject it among other 

 grasses. Here follows Mr. Collier's 



ANALYSIS OF LEPTOCHLOA MUCRONATA : 



Oil, 

 Wax, 



Sugars, 



Gum and dextrin, 



Cellulose, 



Potassium, 

 Potassium oxide, 

 Sodium, 

 Sodium oxide, 

 Calcium oxide, 

 Magnesium oxide 



1.68 



.40 



7.33 



6.41 



32.16 



Amylaceous cellulose, 

 Alkali extract, 

 Albuminoids, 

 Ash, 



ANALYSIS OF ASH. 



1.81 Sulphuric acid, 

 20.21 Phosphoric acid, 

 .80 Silicic acid, 



Chlorine, 

 5.94 



2.66 ::V^J 



23.69 

 11.55 



7.80 



100.00 



3.31 



6.46 



55.92 



2.89 



100.00 



