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nutritive value ; methods of cultivating, cutting and curing, 

 and the management of grass lands in the United States 

 and British Provinces/' by Charles L. Flint, Secretary of 

 the Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture. The other 

 entitled " The Grasses and their Culture," by John Stanton 

 Gould, of the New York State Board of Agriculture. Mr. 

 Flint's book was published in 1859, and at once took rank 

 as a hand-book of the subject. It was based upon the pre- 

 ceding works of Sinclair and Way and is the best applica- 

 cation of their several experiments made up to the year 

 1859. The wort is profusely illustrated, and will be found 

 exceedingly useful by every intelligent farmer. The essay 

 of Mr. Gould was prepared for the transactions of the New 

 York Agricultural Society, and has not been published in a 

 separate book, that we know of. It is, however, well 

 worthy of such publication. 



So far as to the literature of the grasses in book form. 

 In the agricultural journals, and in the transactions of the 

 various State and County Agricultural Societies, there have 

 appeared from time to time many excellent essays upon the 

 grasses. The late Dr. Win. Gordon contributed many ex- 

 cellent papers to various journals in Middle Tennessee on 

 the grasses of that section, but so far no attempt has been 

 made to form a complete list of the grasses of the State. 



The following are the natural grasses examined by Prof. 

 Way: 



