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climate, the muskit might become a very popular grass, but 

 such is not the case. Great quantities of it are annually cut 

 and sold as prairie hay. It would be well for some enter- 

 prising farmer to experiment with it. 



ANNUAL SPEAR GRASS-GOOSE GRASS (Poo, annua.) 



This is one of the species of the valuable genus poa to 

 which blue grass belongs, and is a very common grass on 

 all our swards, 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 common pas- 

 ture 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 nemaralis.) 



This grass grows -in [moist, shady woods, is rank and 

 luxuriant, and is, like the other poos, 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. 



