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Better kinds of Salt Hay | 
from brackish marshes]! 8.23 7.06 T.4T | 44.53 
(mean of three samples) . 
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Black Grass Hay Vio ge : 
twosamples). . . 8.71 | + 5.19 6.79 | 4615 
Rush Salt Grass (mean of | 
twosamples). . gis ath 6.74 4.63 | 46.67 
The coarse Salt-Marsh Grass 
(mean of three samples) . 15.93 10.41 5.09 39.18 
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The German sample of Hay 
from a brackish neveae 15.67 6.49 | 11.87 | 38.45 
(see p 344). . ne 
Sea Spear Grass (Glyceria 
maritima) examined by 11.73 
Gasparin (see p. 340) . 
Bog Hay, carefully cut and 
cured in June (mean of} 7.40 6.34 9.90 42.61 
two samples). ae 
Bog Hay, taken from barns 
(mean of two samples) 
Bog Hay, Prof. Johnson’s 
sample (see p. 346). . . 
Dead Bog Hay collected ina 
field in December. . . 
Common Rush \aae from 
abarn).°. . Sr 
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Flowering Fern (taken ia 
a barn) . ot aes . 
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White Weed,* cut in seh 
(see p. 36) ofan ite 
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Beach-pea Vines (mean of 
the three samples). . 
* The question whether dried white-weed has any fodder value has been 
debated for many years in this vicinity. For a strong statement in its favor, 
made by a Maine farmer, see Fessenden’s ‘‘ New England Farmer,” 1826, 4, 37. 
There can be no question that hay fields infested with white-weed should 
be mown very early, before any of seeds of this plant have matured, for the 
