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The hay from the manured plot was, however, of superior quality, and contained 9.7 °/o 
of albumin, whereas that from the unmanured plot, contained only 7.3 °/o. Similar results 
were obtained with a seed crop, as shown by the following figures : — 
Seed. Hay. 
Manured plot . , 445 Ibs. 4.66% Ibs. 
Unmanured plot . 93. ,, hO50 ,, 
Growth, Yield, Nutritive value. False oat-grass forms loose tufts of grass, so that the Growth. 
eround is thinly covered, For this reason, it should be mixed with other grasses, to thicken 
the sward. After sowing development is very rapid, and considerable produce is obtained 
even in the first year; in the second year the yield reaches its maximum. 
Karmrodt obtained the following produce per acre: — 
: 1st year 6,470 lbs. of hay 
god 45.970 
4} 77 ” 
© “dL ‘ 
3 > 10,384 ik the 2h 
tl} ] atc 
vt : bs 7,524 4) 79 cm) 
The yield is thus at its maximum in the second year and then gradually diminishes. 
This is one of the early grasses, which comes into flower about the begininin 
It should be cut early, because the culms begin to harden soon after flowering. 
go of June. Harvesting. 
On good soils 3 to 4 cultings are obtained, but on medium kinds, only two, The produce of the — Yield, ° 
first cutling is largest, since in the aftermath fewer culms are produced, Sinclair obtained, from a 
loamy clay, the following yield per acre ; — 
Green. Dry. 
During flowermg . . 47,045 6,580 
Aftermath . . . . 43,612 — 
From two cuttings, Pinkert obtained 6,340 lbs., and AKarmrodt, taking an average over 4 years 
9,940 Ibs. Sprengel estimates the yield at 8,800 Ibs, 100 Ibs. of grass give 32 Ibs. of hay. 
According to Wolff 100 lbs. of hay contain 75.8 °/o of organic matter, composed of: — Nutritive 
Albumin (N X< 6.25)... . ILL °%o portion assimilable 5,6 °/o pane 
Pinte, ST en eee OS cas bess ve 33.1 
Non-nitrogenous extractives . . 32.6 °/o J ” 2 a di 
ee ce a 0.8 °/o 
Ratio of nitrogenous to non-nitrogenous nutriment 1: 6.3. 
The taste of the fodder is bitter, so that, especially when green, it is not readily eaten 
by cattle. This is sufficient to indicate that it should only be used in mixtures with other 
orasses and cloyers. As hay if has some specially good points: — it dries readily, and 
when dry, keeps well. 
Harvesting, Impurities and Adulteration of seed. In this case, the production of seed Harvesting 
is very profitable, since the yield is large, the harvesting easy, and the price high. For a _ the seed. 
seed-crop, light warm soils are most suitable. The seed is harvested like that of cereals. 
The ripe plants are cut with a scythe, dried, bound in small sheaves, allowed to ripen, in 
an airy place, and then threshed. The seed is known to be ripe when the panicles assume 
a yellowish tint, and when the grain is beginning to have a leathery consistence, which 
occurs soon after the milky stage. Early cutting is preferable to late; with late cutting, 
seed easily falls out, and is lost. Although cut early, a full seed-crop may be obtained, 
if the sheaves, after drying, are allowed to mature in the barn, In Dauphiny, the culms 
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