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and known as goose grass. It is so very like blue- grass that, to a 

 casual observer, it would be taken for it. But the florets are not 

 webbed, and in blue-grass the roots are creeping, while this is 

 tufted. It is a valuable grazing grass and sows itself. It is a com- 

 mon pasture grass of the Northern States, and is highly prized. It 

 flowers through the whole summer, unless dried up by a drought, 

 to which it easily yields. It forms the principle grazing of the 

 Unaka Mountains in Tennessee. 



According to Prof. Way, this grass is less nutritious than blue- 

 grass when green, and more nutritious when dry. 



"WOOD MEADOW GRASS (Poa nemoralis.} 



This grass grows in moist, shady woods, is rank and luxuriant, 

 and is, like the other poas, greatly relished by stock. It will thrive 

 well in thickets and barrens, and is an early grass. It has been 

 treated of under the head of meadow grasses. 



BLUE-GRASS (Poa pratensis.) 



This is the king of pasture grasses in the 

 Central Basin of Tennessee, and on soils 

 suited to its growth it is useless to attempt 

 the cultivation of any othef kinds, except as 

 auxiliary to this. It is valuable both for 

 summer and winter pasturage, and no far- 

 mer occupying soils suited to its growth is 

 justifiable in being without it. It is easily 

 started, and the seeds are readily procured, 

 and once started, it is perennial. No 

 amount of pasturing is sufficient to destroy 

 it utterly, and, though eaten until no ap- 

 pearance of it is seen on the ground, with 

 rest for a few days, the earth is again car- 

 peted with its soft green foliage as luxuri- 

 antly as ever. " Whoever has blue-grass has 

 the basis for all agricultural prosperity, and 

 that man, if he has not the finest horses, 

 cattle and sheep, has no one to blame but 

 himself. Others in other circumstances may 

 do well, he can hardly help doing well if he 

 will try." 

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