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The Composition of some of Che 
This is specially the case with the fiorin, which in many meadows 
eo overruns the ground with these rooting stems as to prevent 
the growth of better grasses. When there is a choice of 
food, the cattle do not select fiorin, but it is nevertheless a 
useful plant in soils which are not favourable to the growth of 
other grasses. It makes also a fair quality of hay. Fiorin 
flourishes all the year round, but is specially an autumn grass. 
Table VI. — Predominant Grass — Fiorin. 
No. 
Pasture 
ksfoot 
w fescue | 
5 
1 
V 5 
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~ eu 
z 
-grass 
a 
*n 
o 
fescue 
'S 
Si 
tin 
vernal 
rrel-tail 
ae 
El 
jk 
O 
be 
& 
6J) 
t» 
o 
rrow | 
1 
o 
o 
O 
03 
o 
Cm 
EH 
jr c 
u~ 
9 t 
- 
E 
<a 
tiS 
K 
c 
P 
z 
A 
'3 
■ji 
c 
r. 
1 
JS 
o 
5 
142 
Pr ston H ice 
A 
r 
A 
37 
Stilton, 2ud . . 
C 
P 
A 
A 
c 
A 
A 
36 
Stilton, 1st. . . 
C 
c 
C 
p 
A 
c 
- 
A 
A 
c 
40 
Farm Ask . . . 
C 
A 
p 
C 
A 
A 
01 
Meldon, 3rd . . 
C 
— 
p 
C 
c 
o 
C 
22 
Severn Valley . 
0 
C 
A 
p 
0 
c 
A 
28 
Inningham . . 
c 
C 
A 
p 
c 
Z 
C 
A 
A 
_ 
4 
Arun Valley, 2nd 
0 
C 
p 
c 
C 
_ 
_ 
36 
Sugar Hiilj . . 
A 
C 
A 
c 
A 
A 
c 
Q 
P, predominant. A, abundant. C, common. 
The two valuable pastures at Preston Place had a fair 
quantity of rye-grass and Yorkshire fog, but their feeding value 
was due to the vigorous growth of the fiorin, which was by far 
the most abundant ingredient. The two meadows at Stilton 
differed little except that in the one there was a fair admixture 
of timothy and cocksfoot, which were wanting in the other. 
The best of the fiorin meadows that I visited was- the Sugar 
Hills field at Duncombe Park, where there was a good deal of 
cocksfoot, hard fescue, and clover. The presence of the York- 
shire fog, generally in considerable quantity, in all these pastures 
except that of the valley of the Arun, is a serious detriment. 
7. Pastures in which Rye-grass -predominates. 
There can be no doubt that rye-grass is preferred as a food 
to dogstail, if we accept the testimony of the autumn bents as 
an evidence of the rejection of plants by stock. The number of 
bents in proportion to the quantities of rye-grass and dogstail 
in a pasture is much greater for the dogstail. But there may 
always be found a number of ripe heads of rye-grass in pastures 
where this grass occurs, and as no flowering stalk can appear 
unless the stock, in its feeding, has passed over the individual 
plant, it is obvious that rye-grass is not a favourite food. 
