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grass that would cause cows to produce very rich milk, and was then called 
“butter grass.” It was much sown and cultivated in Ireland, and was 
there called “ fiosin,” and highly valued; but during the past fifty years 
the extensive drainage operations have made it less esteemed, and this has 
been brought about by the drains drying the land, and rendering it less 
guitable for its growth, but on damp lands it is very valuable, as my experi- 
ments prove to me. Wherever I sowed it, upon damp or swampy lands, it 
gave a very large amount of exceedingly valuable herbage, and was eagerly 
sought for by the animals, who fattened upon it rapidly. It has proved 
itself a good grass for damp, undrained, or swampy lands, also along the 
edges of streams, or creeks near ground too moist for other nutritious 
grasses to succeed. 
Bromus emarginatus.—This excellent grass should be introduced into all 
mixed pastures, as it grows all through the winter season and withstands 
the ground-frosts that bring so many other grasses to a standstill, while 
its abundant foliage gives an amount of feed during the cold wet weather 
that live stock seem greatly to relish. We may look upon this as a very 
valuable winter grass in these latitudes, and a most useful introduction into 
all moderately open alluvial or loam lands. 
Andropogon laniger.—This fine grass is indigenous in the various parts 
of Eastern Australia. When growing it here, I found it began to shoot 
when the warm weather set in, and continued to grow during the summer, 
and seeded in the autumn ; its short thickly set leaves were much relished 
by sheep, horses, and cattle, and analysis showed they were nutritious and 
fattening. 
Dasuta grass.—The seed of this grass was sent me to test, and upon 
sowing itin tilled loamy soilit eame up freely, and shooting out formed 2 
thick sward; its seed ripened in abundance; this was sown down and 
rapidly covered the ground, showing that this climate suited it. It gives a 
large quantity of herbage, and is green here summer and winter, and if not 
too closely fed or eut down, always shows rapid growth; stock like it. I 
think it would be of great benefit mixed with other grasses as it holds its 
own place amongst them. 
Bromus ciliare.—This fine fattening grass produces an abundance of 
seeds that are as large as those of prairie grass, and though it is of a more 
spreading habit than prairie grass, it resembles it in general character, but 
possesses the merit over prairie grass, that it will bear feeding by stock 
better, and is not so casily destroyed, still it is not so well adapted for close 
feeding as some other grasses named, but proves itself an excellent grass 
forhay. lt grows all the winter and during summer, if the drought is not 
too long continued, and starts afresh after the least rain. 
