YELLOW OAT GRASS. 59 



Heat producing principles, starch, gum, sugar, etc 18.66 



Woody fibre 14.22 



Mineral matter, or Ash 2.72 



100.00 

 100 parts of the grass dried at 212 Q Fahr. 



Albuminous or flesh forming principles 7.48 



Fatty matters 2.61 



Heat producing principles, starch, sugar, gum, etc 47.08 



"Woody fibre 35.95 



Mineral matter, or Ash 6.88 



100.00 



Yellow Oat grass, grows naturally in dry pasture 

 on rather light and good soils yields a considerable 

 bulk of fine herbage, and deserves to form a portion 

 of all mixtures on light, dry soils, either for hay or 

 pasture. It arrives early at maturity, and although 

 a perrermial, yet if allowed to ripen seed, it is is but 

 of short duration, particularly if grown on stiff, 

 moist soils. It is the most useful, as a hay and pas- 

 ture grass, of the genus Avena, as well as the smallest 

 jseeded of all the native species. 



Mr. Tauton says of it : " That it is so rich in its 

 (qualities, and so universal a citizen of the world, that 

 there is no soil from the lightest calcareous loam, to 

 :the stiffest clay into which he would not introduce it 

 where he intended to form a permanent turf." It is 

 said that a top-dressing of lime will double the pro- 

 duce of this grass, and that it thrives best on calcar- 

 ious soils. About 1 or two Ibs. of seed should enter 

 (into lawn mixtures. 5 1-2 Ibs. make a bushel of the 

 seeds of Avena Flavescens. 



