ON RAISING GRASS SEEDS AND FORMING MEADOWS. 357 



Observations, in Addition to the preceding Statement; on 

 the Method of laying dozen Pasture and Meadow Land, 

 with an Account of some Pastures made with the Festuca 

 PratensiS) -Lin., or Meadow Fescue-Grass, and Clovers, 

 by Mr. William Salisbury. 



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Dear Sir, 



T is now nearly thirty years since my much respected Kay-grass info. 

 friend and partner, Mr. Curtis, wrote his observations other kinds 

 on several of our native grasses, better adapted to the pur- 

 poses of pasture than ray-grass, the only species of these 

 various tribes that was then, or even now, generally used 

 for the purpose ; yet it is acknowledged, by all persons 

 conversant on this subject, that it is inferior to many 

 others, both in produce and nutriment, and also that it 

 remains in the ground but a short time, a fact which at- 

 taches also to all the clovers, and is to be lamented by the 

 grazier. 



I have been often more mortified than surprised to Others not cul 



find, that, after so much has been written on this interest- tlvated f ° afl * 

 1 7 vantage from 



ing subject, and when other grass seeds may be obtained, erroneous 



almost every person is of opinion, that they cannot be practice » 

 cultivated to advantage. I am ready to admit much 

 truth in this, when they are sown according to the com- 

 mon system in practice, which I have frequently convinced 

 myself and others to be erroneous, and that it prevents 

 these useful plants from succeeding after the seeds have 

 been sown. 



It will readily be supposed, that I allude to the mode of in laying land 

 laying down land to grass under a crop of spring corn : rfnd I under 10 8 ™*ol 

 am fully sensible, that many persons will say, that it would spring corn. 

 be madness to sacrifice the benefit of a crop of barley or oats, 

 -where the land is in fine order, and while we can have a crop 

 of grass under it. 



* To this I reply, that there is no land whatever, when 

 left for a few months in a state of rest, but will pvoduce 

 naturally some kind of herbage, good and had ; and thus 

 we find the industry of mau excited, and the application of 



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