106 COMPARATIVE TRIALS. 



In the first trial, with bromus and reed canary grass, 

 there was no choice. Both were eaten alike. 



In the second, with bromus and English hay, the 

 English hay was preferred. 



In the third, with bromus and swale hay, the swale 

 hay was eaten first. 



In the fourth, with bromus and oat straw, the bromus 

 was eaten first. 



In the fifth, with reed canary grass and English hay, 

 the English hay was preferred. 



In the sixth, with reed canary grass and swale, the 

 swale was chosen at once. 



In the seventh, with reed canary grass and oat straw, 

 the oat straw was chosen first. 



In the eighth, with reed canary grass and corn-stalks, 

 the corn-stalks were eaten first. 



In the ninth, with bromus and corn-stalks, both were 

 eaten nearly alike till they were gone. 



In the tenth, with bromus and millet, the cattle chose 

 the millet, and did not touch the bromus. 



It is unnecessary to say that " Cheat " is a trouble- 

 some weed to the farmer, especially when it appears in 

 his grain-fields. It is an early grass, but the quantity 

 of herbage, and especially its quality, make it unfit 

 for cultivation. Indeed, the only species of any value, 

 or at all fit for cultivation, belonging to this large genus 

 of grasses, is the Bromus arvensis, and even that has 

 been discarded from modern agriculture. It may be 

 valuable to sow with spring grain to turn in green. 



SMOOTH BROME GRASS, or UPRIGHT CHESS (Bromus 

 racemosus), has a panicle erect, simple, rather narrow, 

 contracted when in fruit ; flowers closer than in the 

 preceding, lower palea exceeding the upper, bearing an 

 awn of its own length ; stem erect, round, more slender 

 than in chess ; sheaths slightly hairy. In other respects 



