EXAMINATION OF GRASSES. 



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ductions of a similar nature may be made by comparing 

 these tables. 



TABLE VIII. ANALYSIS OF NATURAL GRASSES. (100 

 parts of the grass dried at 212 FaJir.} 



In the case of orchard grass and the irrigated meadow, 

 in Table VIII., the seeds were ripened, and they should 

 not, therefore, be compared with other grasses taken in 

 the blossom, without considering this fact. It will be 

 seen, too, that the specimens analyzed were in the dry 

 state, much drier than they could be made by the ordi- 

 nary process of hay-making ; for, however perfectly the 

 hay is cured, it will still contain a very considerable per- 



