Manure. 
Growth. 
Development. 
Yield. 
Nutritive 
value. 
Harvesting 
the seed. 
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The application of manure, whether liquid, farmyard, compost or artificial, is very 
advantageous and profitable. 
Growth, Yield, Nutritive value. Meadow foxtail forms short underground stolons, but 
no tuft: hence the grass it produces is thin. This and sweet-scented vernal are the earliest 
fodder-grasses. In early seasons, the long sappy leaves are out by the beginning of April; 
by the middle of the month, the first spikes are appearing ; by May, the grass is in flower ; 
and soon after, the seeds are ripe. The second cutting yields, like the first, culms and 
abundance of leaves about 16 inches Jong. From a good soil, three cuttings may readily 
be taken. The produce is small in the year of sowing, good in the second, and reaches 
its maximum in the third. 
Sinclair obtained, from a good clay loam, the following yield, per acre: — 
Green. Dry. 
4** cutting 18" June 20,419 Ibs. 6,126 Ibs. 
gt ,SCtt«CA* Sept 8,167 ,, =~ 
Total 28,586 Ibs. 6,126 Ibs, 
Vianne obtained from a fertile loam : — 
Green. Hay. 
19,050 Ibs. 6,072 Ibs. 
8,976 ,, 2.860 ,, 
28,026 Ibs. 8,952 Ibs. 
1** cutting 1%* June 
od ce AS Sok: 
Total 
The following analyses show the nutritive value: — 
Grass. Hay. Dry Substance. 
1st Cut, gnd Cut. Ist Cut. gud Cut. 1st Cnt. 2nd Cut. 
in flower. leafy shoots. in flower. leafy shoots, in flower. leafy shoots. 
Water 73.38 Jo 75.66 °/o 14.00. °/o 14.00 °/o — = 
Ash ete 3.31 °/o 2,20 “Jo 10.65 °/o 7.89 °/o 12,39 °/o 9.18 °/o 
Albumin (N > 6.25) 2A3 %/o 3.08 °/o 6.86 °/o 10.88 °/o 7.98 °/o 12.65 °%/o 
Fibre 8.62 °/o 7,97 */o 27.77 °/o 28.16 °/o 32.30 °/o 32.74 °/o 
Non-nilrogenous extractives 12.08 °/o 9.99 °/o 39.19 °/o 35.28 °/o 45.55 °/o 41.02 °/o 
Bat. vo? 2S SS A 2 ER 1.07 °/o 1.53 °/o 3.79 °/o 1.78 °/o 4A %/o 
Non-albuminoid nitrogen in the dry substance: — 4* cutting 0.154% °/o, 2™¢ cutting 0.103 °%/o, 
According to older analyses the following is the composition: — 
Grass in flower. Hay, 
Ritthausen Ritthausen 
and Scheven. Way. and Scheven. Way. 
Water 66.8 °/o 80.2 °/o 14.0 °/o 14.8 °/o 
Ash 2.1 °%/o 1.5 °/o 5.4 %/o 6.6 °/o 
Albumin . . 2.7 fo 2.4 %/o 7.0 %/o 10.6 °/o 
Fibr6é « « 15.5 °/o 6.7 °/o 40.1 °/o 29.0 %/o 
Non-nitrogenous extractives 412.4 °/o 8.7 °/o 31.4 °/o 37.0 °/o 
Pat a sn RE eo RE 0.5 °/o 2.1 °/o 2.5 %/o 
The nutritive matters are thus seen to occur in good proportion. ‘The fodder has a 
sweet taste, and whether green or dry, is readily eaten. In wet weather it is readily laid, 
and liable to become rotten at the bottom. To prevent this it should be mown frequently. 
Harvesting, Impurities, and Adulteration of Seed. Seed becomes ripe soon after flowering. 
Seed-harvesting is difficult because the spikes ripen so very unequally. At hay-time, many 
