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hardly equal to Timothy and clover, and because it is 

 more difficult to cut and cure." 



The same writer says : " Any time in the winter, 

 when the snow is on the ground, sow broadcast from 

 three to four quarts of clean seed to the acre. With 

 the spring the seeds germinate, and are very fine in the 

 sprouts, and delicate. No stock should be allowed for 

 the first year, nor until the grass seeds in June, for the 

 first time in the second year. The best plan is to turn 

 on your stock when the seed ripens in June. Graze 

 off the grass, then allow the fall growth and graze all 

 winter, taking care never to feed the grass closely at 

 any time." 



Another eminent cattle breeder, speaking of this 

 grass, says, " Whoever has limestone land has blue 

 grass; whoever has blue grass has the basis of all 

 agricultural prosperity ; and that man, if he have not 

 the finest horses, cattle, and sheep, has no one to blame 

 but himself. Others, in other circumstances, may do 

 well. He can hardly avoid doing well, if he will try." 



By reference to a table on a subsequent page, contain- 

 ing the results of the recent investigations of Prof. 

 Way, the distinguished chemist of the Royal Agricultural 

 Society of England, will be seen the relative value of 

 this grass when green, as compared with Timothy, for 

 instance, as shown in the nutritive and 'flesh-forming, 

 and especially in the fat-forming principles, which con- 

 tribute so largely to the development and support of 

 the whole animal system. The reader is referred to that 

 table, and to another following it, containing analyses 

 of these plants Avhen dried and freed from water, and to 

 the explanatory remarks on the nutritive principles of 

 plants, which precede those tables. 



BLUE GRASS, or WIRE GRASS (Poa compressa). 

 Stems ascending, flattened, the uppermost joint near 



