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fatten cattle, as the Guinea grafs. In general it ia 

 merely appropriated to the liable j and the quantity 

 which the ground yields, and the quicknefs of its 

 growth, render it very ufcful and valuable, parti- 

 cularly near towns in the Weft-Indies, which afford 

 a market for it. 



This grafs is alfo cultivated by being planted, 

 which is thus accomplilhed: — The land is freed 

 from all weeds, fedges, and rubbifh, by their being 

 clean hoed, and burnt off, and requires to be laid 

 out fo as to admit of being overflowed 5 and alfo 

 to be fo well drained, that no water can lodge to 

 ftagnate, and deftroy the grafs. The grafs to be 

 planted is cut into junks, every joint thereof, which 

 is from five to ten inches long, being a junk, or 

 plant. A fingle one is ftuck in the ground with 

 the joint downwards, and in this manner they are 

 diftributed at random, fo as to be about fix or 

 eight inches apart. In a few hours thefe joints 

 begin to ihoot, and take root; and in the courfe 

 of three weeks, or a month, the grafs will grovr 

 fufficiendy high to be cut, which is when it is about 

 fix feet. As the grafs grows, weeds and all extra 

 produ6lion$ are freed from it, by being pulled up 

 as they appear, and put into heaps to be dried and 

 burnt off. Care is taken when it is cut, alfo to , 

 weed at the fame time; with which management, 



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