The Grasses Of Maine Designed For The Use Of The Students Of The Maine State College And The Farmers Of The State

Author : Charles Henry Fernald
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333778422
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (784 download)

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Download or read book The Grasses of Maine written by Charles Henry Fernald and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-28 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Grasses of Maine: Designed for the Use of the Students of the Maine State College, and the Farmers of the State According to the Census report for 1880, there were tons of hay cut in the State of Maine in the year 1879. If we assume that the average value of that hay was ten dollars a ton, we have as the value of the hay cr0p for that year. It would be difficult to determine what proportion of the above quan tity of hay was clover, but omitting all reference to the value of the grass in the pastures, which will, without doubt. Far more than offset all the clover in the above-named amount of hay, we still have over eleven million dollars for the value of the true grasses which were grown in the State of Maine and cut for hay in the year 1879, and this sum is greater than the amount of the value of all the wheat, corn, rye, oats, barley, buckwheat, potatoes, peas, beans, orchard products, market - garden products and forest products of the entire State for the same year. It may well be claimed that grass is the most important of all our crops, and really forms the foundation of agriculture in the State. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.