Excerpt from The Grasses of Tennessee: Including Cereals and Forage Plants
In the preparation of this work all available sources of information to be bad in Europe or America have been consulted. Free use has been made of the standard works of Gray, Flint, Gould and Howard, and also of the reports of the Agricultural Department at Washington, as well as the numerous State reports. The admirable works of Prof. S. W. Johnson, of Yale College, have supplied me with valuable information, I have had access to the various publications of Baron Liebig, the pioneer in agricultural science, and have also derived much aid from the painstaking researches of Wolff and Knop, of Germany; of Johnson, Way, Sinclair, Mechi, Voeleker Lawes and Gilbert, of England, and from the reports of the Highland Society of Scotland. The little work of Edmund Murphy, of Ireland, has been suggestive. I have relied mainly, however, upon the experience, observation and success of the best farmers of our own State. Reference is made elsewhere to the great assistance received from Dr. W. M. Clarke, Dr. Gattinger and Prof. Hunter Nicholson. The work is the result of much labor, and I indulge the hope that it may be instrumental in directing the minds of our farmers to the importance of the grasses in the solution of the problem of agricultural thrift and prosperity.
It is due to Mrs. Clare Snively, of Nashville, to say that the cuts which appear in the work were executed by her, many of them from original drawings.
Several verbal errors escaped the proof reader, many of which were detected and corrected before the full edition of the book was worked off. On page 14, fifteenth line from the top, there is an error in the statement made. There are in fact about eighty species of sedges and rushes found growing in the State, very few of which are eaten by cattle. The "broomsedge," so called, is not a sedge, but a true grass, belonging to the genus andropogon, and forms the chief summer grazing of the Cumberland Mountains. It should be called broom grass.
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