This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...but 10.24. That was a well-cured specimen, taken after it had passed the period of blossoming, and the amount of water is, perhaps, slightly below the average. Table IX. Analysis of Natural Grasses. (100 parts of the grass dried at 212 Fahr.) It will be seen that a great difference exists in the valuable constituents ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1857 Excerpt: ...but 10.24. That was a well-cured specimen, taken after it had passed the period of blossoming, and the amount of water is, perhaps, slightly below the average. Table IX. Analysis of Natural Grasses. (100 parts of the grass dried at 212 Fahr.) It will be seen that a great difference exists in the valuable constituents of the grasses analyzed in this table, ranging as follows: --Lowest. Flesh-forming principles, .. 6.08 Pat-producing principles, .. 2.11 Heat-giving principles, .. 38.03 Table X. Analysis of Artificial Grasses. (In 100 parts of the grass dried at 2129 Falir.) A glance at this table will show that the different principles in the artificial grasses vary to a great extent, as follows: --The difference in composition exhibited in the natural grasses of table IX. are very marked, and of course, the value of the grasses as compared with each other must vary greatly. Still, the practical value of a grass depends somewhat upon circumstances which cannot be analyzed, such as the period at.which it arrives at maturity, and the particular soil and location of the farmer. It might happen that a grass not in itself so rich in nutritive qualities as another, would be preferred on account of its coming to maturity just at the time when the farmer most needed it. But the particular value of this table is, that it shows the comparative nutritive qualities of the grasses, since all the specimens were collected and investigated in the same manner, at the same period of growth, --or as nearly as possible, --when in the flower, so that whatever sources of error might exist to modify the results, they would naturally apply to all alike. The grasses from the irrigated meadow consisted principally of June, or Kentucky blue grass, rough stalked meadow grass, perennial rye
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