Annual Report with Addresses, Discussions and Factory Reports at Its Annual Meeting (Volume 6) - Softcover

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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. 1872. Excerpt: ... GRASSES FOR THE DAIRY. AN ADDRESS, DELIVERED BEFORE TnE NORTHWESTERN DAIRYMEN'S ASSOCIATION, At Elgin, Iii., On Wednesday Evbning, Jan. 17, l872. By W. J. BEAL, Prof, of Botany IN THE STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE OF MICHIGAN. The parts of this subject which I wish to present you are full of difficulties, so I shall no doubt be somewhat embarrassed, realizing that I am not making myself fully understood. I shall omit technicalities as much as possible, and wish any one to ask questions during the lecture, or at the close of the hour, though I make no promises that they will be answered satisfactorily. Grass makes pasture for summer, and hay for winter, and these feed all the cattle, 6heep and horses in the temperate zones. Upon grass we are dependent for our beef and leather, mutton and wool, and milk, butter and cheese. Before the members of this Association it would be a waste of time to say much about the aptness of my subject for an occasion like this. There are certain groups of plants which the botanist associates together, called Natural Families, on account of their many points of resemblance, in the quality of their sap, structure of stems and leaves, and particularly in the several parts of the flowers, fruit and seeds. All the flowering plants growing in the United States, between the Mississippi river and the Atlantic, the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico, are included in about one hundred and fifty families....,-i. Most of the plants which are cultivated to supply man and his do 2 mestic animals with food, are included within sixteen of these natural groups. Plants of a few others are raised for timber; for the fiber of their bark, as flax and hemp; oil of their seeds, nuts which they bear, eugar which is made of their sap, the down of their s...

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