GRASSES OF TENNESSEE. 



INCLUDING 



FORAGE PLANTS. 



PAET I. 



GRASSES IN GENERAL. 



In this part, besides giving a general statement as to the importance of 

 grasses in a national point of view, and setting forth the best method of 

 preparing, sowing and treating meadows and pastures, a good deal of 

 scientific matter has been introduced. This has been done because 

 there is springing up all over the State a class of young farmers who, 

 recognizing the value of scientific acquirements in connection with 

 practical skill, earnestly desire to increase their knowledge in scientific 

 agriculture. Just science enough has been incorporated to arouse the 

 ambition of this class to excel in their vocation and to become familiar 

 with the f cientific terms, without some knowledge of which it is im- 

 possible to make any permanent progress. The description of the 

 grasses is impossible without employing some technical terms, and these 

 terms should be familiar to the ambitious farmer. 



A table has also been prepared by which any one of studious habit* 

 and an enquiring mind may soon learn to i ame the grasses with which 

 he is brought into daily contact. 



The strictly scientific chapters have been designated by a star, so that 

 the practical farmer who desires only practical information may pass 

 over them. In the other parts of the work the technical or scientific 

 descriptions will be put in small type. 



