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Table III. — Predominant Grasses — Yorkshire Fog 
and Fiorin. 
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4. Pastures in which Yorkshire Fog, Fiorin, and Dogstail 
predominate. 
Dogstail, though placed by many writers among the best 
pasture grasses, is acknowledged by all to produce but little 
foliage. Gorrie, a careful observer and practical agriculturist, 
rightly estimates its value when he says that it yields " a com- 
paratively scanty supply of innutritious herbage, which is not 
liked by any kind of stock ; and unless pastures where it pre- 
dominates be barely eaten down in the early part of the season, 
when its stems are tender, these attain to a height of twelve or 
eighteen inches, and become rigid, dry ' windle straws,' which 
both injure and disfigure the autumn and winter verdure." 
Dogstail is one of the so-called fine grasses, and looks as if it 
ought to be a favourite with stock, but the presence in autumn 
of so many of its bents in all pastures where it abounds is the 
plainest testimony that it is rejected as food. Had the leaves 
been eaten down, the flowering stalks would not have been pro- 
duced. No doubt it has, as chemical analysis shows, high 
Table IV. — Predominant Grasses — Yorkshire Fog, 
Fiorin, and Dogstail. 
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