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applied to this country; it is to make ufe of every 

 proper method to get meadow land covered with 

 grafs as early as poflible in the fpring; for if fo, 

 the abundance of dews which fall at that feafon of 

 the year upon the leaves of the grafs, will be con- 

 veyed through the veflels to the roots, and the fun's 

 rays promoting the motion of the juices, will con- 

 tribute to make it vegetate, even if we fhould have 

 a fcarcity of rain ; whereas if the land be fed bare 

 in April and May, the increafing heat of the fun 

 will exhale the circulating juices from the roots of 

 the Ihort grafs upon barren land, fo as to dry them 

 up, and caufe them to (tagnate for want of moif- 

 turej from hence I conclude, that if the meadow 

 be covered ever in the froft, and the earth well 

 hufbanded fo as to nourifh the tender roots of the 

 grafs, it will caufe it to vegetate (o much the ear- 

 lier in the fpring, as to cover the ground before the 

 fun's rays can aft fo powerfully as to fcorch it up; 

 in which cafe it will in a dry fummer grow double 

 the quantity of hay it would have had on it without 

 fuch drefTing. However, landlords fhould drefs 

 their lands in the fummer as already recommended. 



I do not in general like the rolling of meadow, 

 our heavy clay foil being clofe enough without it| 

 (jcfides, the roller will prefs the loofe clods of earth 



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