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climate, the muskit might become a very popular grass, but 

 such is not the case. Great quantities of it are annually cut 

 and sold as prairie hay. It would be well for some enter- 

 prising farmer to experiment with it. 



ANKITAL SPEAK GKASS-GOOSE GRASS— (Poa annua.) 



This is one of the species of the valuable genus poa ta 

 which blue grass belongs, and is a very common grass on 

 all our swards, and known as goose grass. It is so very 

 like blue-grass that, to a casual observer, it would be 

 taken for it. But the florets are not webbed, and in blue- 

 grass the roots are creeping, while this is tufted. It is a 

 valuable grazing grass and sows itself. It is a common pas- 

 ture grass of the Northern States, and is highly prized. It 

 flowers through the whole summer, unless dried up by a. 

 drought,"to which it easily yields. It forms the principle 

 grazing of the Unaka Mountains in Tennessee. 



According to Prof. Way, this grass is less nutritious thaa 

 blue-grass when green, and more nutritious when dry. 



WOOD MEADOW GB. ASS— {Poa nemaralis.) 



This grass grows in moist, shady woods, is rank and 

 luxuriant, and is, like the other poas, greatly relished by 

 stock. It will thrive^well in thickets and barrens, and is 

 an early grass.^ It£has been treated of under the head of 

 meadow grasses. 



