34 ANNUAL BYE GRASS. 



% 



amount of forcing by irrigation, liquid manures 

 or phosphatic applications, a system which has al- 

 ways been practised in the vicinity of the cities and 

 towns of the United Kingdom, and which has always 

 been considered a paying one. 



In one of the large fields of the Beacon Stock Farm 

 which was seeded down last fall with a mixture of 

 orchard grass, timothy, Rhode Island bent, Ken- 

 tucky blue grass, red top and Italian Rye grass, 

 there is about two acres which was sown exclusively 

 with Italian Rye grass, and its superior appearance 

 is quite noticeable. 



CHAPTER V. 



ANNUAL EYE GTCASS. 



Lolium Annum. 



WAY'S ANALYSIS. 

 100 parts as taken green from the field, Juue 8th. 



Water 69.00 



Albuminous or flesh forming principles 2.96 



Fatty matter -69 



Heat producing principles, starch, sugar, gum, etc. . . 12.89 



Woody fibre 12.47 



Mineral matter or ash 



100.00 



Owing to the acquired annual habits of the sort 

 generally known by this name, it differs from the 

 more perrennial varieties by having fewer roots, 

 leaves, and a greater quantity of culms and stalks 

 which are rather longer and furnished with a smaller 



