A Gasss AGE.
This new scheme of research happens to coincide with a really astonishing number of experiments in the cultivation and investigation of all sorts of grasses, by all sorts of people. One of the most interesting is the Spartina or rice grass, first planted, I think, in any quantity in the half-submerged flats by Poole Harbour. It has recently been encouraged, with most promising results, by the Essex County Council, on the waste land along their curious coast ; and its food value has just been brought to light after a series of practical experiments on stock. It may now be regarded as established that this Peculiar exotic grass, which delights in unpopular soils, will enable us to reclaim. to cultivated use spacious mudflata previously as nearly as may be useless, and that it provides a hay crop both palatable and digestible for sheep.
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