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seeds are to be sown, and lightly harrowed in. This method fre- 

 quently succeeds admirably. There is another mode of renovating 

 pastures or meadows, which has of late been introduced into some 

 parts of New-England, and it is said with great success. In this 

 way the land is plowed, or the surface inverted in August or Septem- 

 ber, the soil made fine by harrowing, and the grass seeds are then 

 sown alone, or without any crop. If the land is much exhausted, or 

 poor, a dressing of compost manure harrowed in with the seeds, is 

 found very useful. The young plants generally stand the winter 

 well, and the next season shows a fine growth of the valuable grasses. 

 Where soils are so situated that they cannot well be plowed, the 

 first method may be used with great advantage, but where the turf 

 can be inverted, it will be found advisable to do it in all cases, as the 

 roots of the coarse grasses decomposed will furnish nutriment for the 

 new ones, even where no manure or compost is added. There can 

 be little doubt of the propriety of taking a crop of some kind at the 

 time of re-seeding, certainly if a dressing of manure is given. It is 

 very certain, however, that a crop without manure, will only stili 

 further exhaust the soil; while re-seeding without cropping adds the 

 decomposed roots of the grasses already in the soil to its elements of 

 fertility; consequently in already impoverished soils, seeding without 

 cropping may be advisable. The practice of fall feeding meadows, 

 so commonly pursued by our farmers, is a most injurious one, if the 

 feeding is as close as it usually is. It is necessary for the perfection 

 of the roots of all the grasses, and consequently for their durability, 

 that leaves should be permitted to exist in full vigor at some time, 

 and as the first ones formed are each year cut by the scythe, it ap- 

 pears rational that the succeeding ones should perform their functions 

 undisturbed. In addition to this, if the second growth is left, it 

 forms a good protection for the roots during the winter, and in its 

 decay furnishes precisely the material the future growth and vigor 

 of the plant requires. 



No farm can be well and successfully managed, that is destitute of 

 good fence; and there are few signs less equivocal than that of farmer's 



fences. Of fence there many kinds, such as Virginia or worm 

 Fences. . 



fence, stone waU,-post and rail fence, post and board fence, turf 

 wall, hedge fence, &c. Of these kinds the stone wall, wherever suita- 

 ble materials are to be had, is decidedly the best. It occupies as 

 little ground as any, and is the most permanent. The vporm or rail 



