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When food artificially composed is to be given 
to cattle, it should be brought as nearly as possible 
“ Alopecurus pratensis , meadow fox-tail. Sheep and horses 
seem to have a greater relish for this grass than oxen. It de- 
lights in a soil of intermediate quality as to moisture or dryness, 
and is very productive. In the water-meadow at Priestley, it 
constitutes a considerable part of the produce of that excellent 
meadow. It there keeps invariably possession of the top of 
the ridges, extending generally about six feet from each side 
of the water-course ; the space below that, to where the ridge 
ends, is stocked with cock’s-foot, the rough-stalked meadow 
grass, Festuca pratensis , Festuca duriuscula, Agrostis stolonifera, 
Agrostis palustris , and sweet-scented vernal grass, with a small 
admixture of some other kinds. 
“ Phleum pratense , meadow cat’s-tail. This grass is eaten 
without reserve, by oxen, sheep, and horses. Dr. Pulteney 
says, that it is disliked by sheep; but in pastures where it 
abounds, it does not appear to be rejected by these animals, 
but eaten in common with such others as are growing with it. 
Hares are remarkably fond of it. The Phleum nodosum , 
Phleum alpinum , Poa fertilise and Poa compressa , were left 
untouched, although they were closely adjoining to it. It 
seems to attain the greatest perfection in a rich deep loam. 
“ Agrostis stolonifera , florin. In the experiments detailed in 
the Amcenitates Academicae, it is said, that horses, sheep, and 
oxen eat this grass readily. On the Duke of Bedford’s farm 
at Maulden, florin hay was placed in the racks before horses in 
small distinct quantities, alternately with common hay ; but no 
decided preference for either was manifested by the horses in 
this trial. But that cows and horses prefer it to hay, when in 
a green state, seems fully proved by Dr. Richardson, in his 
several publications on Fiorin ; and of its productive powers in 
England, (which has been doubted by some,) there are satisfac- 
tory proofs. Lady Hardwicke has given an account of a trial 
of this grass ; wherein 23 milch cows, and one young horse, 
besides a number of pigs, were kept a fortnight on the produce 
of one acre. 
“ Poa trivialis, rough-stalked meadow. Oxen, horses, and 
