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fpring, root up the thirties, hemlock, or any large 

 plants that appear. The doing this while the 

 ground is foft enough to permit your drawing 

 them by the roots, and before they feed, will fave 

 you infinite trouble afterwards. 



The common method of proceeding in laying 

 down fields to grafs . is extremely injudicious. 

 Some fow barley with their grafTes, which they 

 fuppofe to be ufeful in fhading them, without 

 confidering how much the corn draws away the 

 nourifhment from the land. 



Others take their feeds from a foul hay-rick, 

 by which means, befides filling the land with 

 rubbifh and weeds, what they intend for dry foils 

 may have come from moift, where it grew natu^ 

 rally, and vice verfa. The confequence is, that 

 the ground, inftead of being covered with a good 

 thick fward, is filled with plants unnatural to it. 

 The kinds of grafs which 1 would choofe to cul- 

 tivate in pafture lands, are, the Annual Meadow, 

 Creeping and fine Bent, the Fox-tails, the Crefted 

 Dog's-tail, the Poas, the Fefcues, the Vernal 

 Oat-grafs, and the Ray or Rye-grafs. I do not, 

 however, approve of fowing all thefe kinds toge- 

 ther; for not to mention their ripening at diffe- 

 rent times, by which means you can never cut 



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