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ANALYSES OF TBXJE GRASSES. 



Table VI. — Analysis op Natural Grasses. (100 

 parts as taken green from thejidd.) 



Nomeof Orau. 





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npe. 



Sweet-scented Vernal, 

 Meadow Foxtail, 

 Tall Oat Grass, . 

 Yellow Oat Grass, 

 Downy Oat Grass, 

 Quaking Grass, . 

 Upright Brome Grass, 

 Soft Brome Grass, . 

 Crested Dog's-tail, . 

 Orchard Grass, . . 

 Orchard Grass, seeds 

 Hard Fescue Grass, 

 Meadow Soft Grass, 

 Barley Grass, . . . 

 Perennial Eye Grass, 

 Italian Rye Grass, . 

 Timothy Grass, . . 

 Annual Spear Grass, 

 June Grass, .... 

 Bough-stalked Meadow, 

 Irrigated Meadow Grass, 

 Irrigated Meadow, 2d crop. 

 Annual Bye Grass, . . , 



8.54 



8.59 

 11.21 

 18.66 

 19.16 

 22.60 

 33. 



9.04 

 19.64 

 13.30 

 12.61 

 12.46 

 11.92 

 20.05 

 12.08 

 14.11 

 22.85 

 10.79 

 14.15 

 10.54 



3.98 

 11.17 

 12.89 



7.15 



6.70 



9.37 



14.22 



13.34 



17.00 



19 



8.46 



9.80 



10.11 



20.54 



11.83 



11.94 



18.03 



10.06 



4.82 



11.32 



6.80 



12.49 



10.11 



8.13 



8.76 



12.47 



1.24 

 1.56 

 2.86 

 2.72 

 2.01 

 4.17 

 2.11 

 1.36 

 2.38 

 1.59 

 2.61 

 1.66 

 1.93 

 2.54 

 2.15 

 2.21 

 2.26 

 .59 

 1.95 

 2.20 

 1.28 

 2.24 

 1.99 



A glance at the first column of Table VI. will show a 

 striking difierence in the percentage of water, it being 

 as high as 80 in some instances, while it falls as low as 

 60, and in one instance to 51, without considering the 

 second specimen of orchard grass, — in which the seed 

 was allowed to ripen, when, of course, the amount of 

 water would be much less than at the period of flower- 

 ing, — or the irrigated grasses. 



