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100 parts bf the dried grass gave according to analysis of 



Way. Wolff AKnop. 



Albuminoids^ 13.53 . 11.60 



Fatty matter, 3.14 2.70 



Carbohydrates^ 44.32 40.70 



Woody fibre, 33.70 28.90 



Ash. ' 5.31 4.60 



100.00 88.50 



These apparent discrepancies are what must be expected of 

 any other grass grown under different conditions and cut at dif- 

 ferent stages of maturity. Mr. Sinclair's Woburn experiments 

 well illustrate this. Grown on rich sandy soil, he cut of this 

 grass immaturej 10,209 pounds per acre containing 1,190 pounds 

 nutritive matter. Cut in flower, an acre gave 27,905 poands 

 green, or 11,859 pounds dry hay containing 1,089 pounds nu- 

 tritive matter. Cut in seed it weighed per acre 26,544 pounds 

 fresh, or 13,272 dry;, containing 1,451 pounds nutritive matter. 

 Cut in this last mature stage j it is much more difficult to masti- 

 cate and digest^ and a less proportion of the nutritive matter is 

 assimilated, It should, therefore;, be cut at an earlier stage to 

 secure the healthiest relish and most nutriment for green soiling 

 or hay. 



Altogether and from every stand point, I am compelled to 

 say still as I did many years ago that I prefer orchard to any 

 other grass. Nor am I alone in this preference. I could fill 

 volumes with testimonials more strongly expressed than my own 

 in favor of this grass over all others, by the most distinguished 

 live stock growers of Europe and America* 



After being cut,, it has been found to grow four inches in less 

 than three days. Sheep leave all other grasses, if they can find 

 this ; and acre for acre it will sustain twice as many sheep or 

 other stock as timothy or other esteemed pasture grasses. Cut 

 at the proper stage it makes a much better hay than timothy 

 and is greatly preferred by animals, being easier to masticate, 

 digest and assimilate ; in fact more like green grass in flavor, 

 tenderness and solubility. It grows on any soil not too wet or 

 too salty ; on hill and vale, mountain and plain. 



It produces seeds freely and they germinate with certainty. 

 A bushel of cleaned seeds weighs from twelve to fifteen pounds. 

 It may be be improved by selecteng seeds from choice plants. 

 Probably all the cereals, certainly all that I have tried, may be 

 greatly improved by careful selection and judicious culture. 



FESTTJCA. Fescue Grasses. 



Native and introduced, eight species of this genus are found 

 growing in the southern States. These range from two inches 



