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Loamy Soils. — White clover, two quarts; rye grass, two quarts; 

 Yorkshire white, one peck ; fescue, six quarts ; fox tail, six quarts ; 

 dog's tail, four quarts; poa, four quarts ; timothy, four pounds ; yarrow, 

 two quarts ; lucerne, four pounds. 



Sandy Soils. — White clover, two quarts ; rye grass, four quarts ; 

 Yorkshire white, two pecks; yarrow, two quarts; burnet, six pounds; 

 trefoil, five pounds ; rib, four pounds. 



Chalky Soils. — Yarrow, one bushel ; burnet, five pounds ; trefoil, six 

 pounds ; white clover, seven pounds ; sainfoin, five pounds. 



Peaty Soils. — White clover, two pounds ; dog's tail, five quarts; cock's 

 foot, two quarts ; rib, two quarts ; Yorkshire white, two pecks ; rye 

 grass, two pecks ; fox tail, two pecks ; fescue, two pecks ; timothy, six 

 pounds. 



In laying down lands to grass, the most important primary object is, 

 duly to prepare them for the reception of the seed. Hence the soil 

 should previously be brought to the highest possible degree of cultiva- 

 tion ; for, though land may be too rich for the production of grain, and 

 ■of such crops as are raised for the seed, it is quite difierent in the case 

 of grasses, or other crops where the object in view is the largeness and 

 luxuriance of the plants. The richness of the soil, is, in this case, a most 

 important consideration, because the richer and more fertile it is made, 

 the more abundant crops Avill it produce, and the larger the stock of 

 cattle will it support ; whereas, the contrary effects must result from 

 laying down to grass either poor land, or such as has been exhausted 

 by the repeated tillage of grain. 



With regard to the time of sowing, I have found, from repeated exper- 

 iments, that autumn is preferable to spring. The proper season is from 

 the last week in August to the first week in September, for all but clover, 

 which should be sowed as early in the spring as the season permits. 

 The ground should previously be brought into the highest possible degree 

 of pulverization ; otherwise, the irregularity of the surface will not only 

 occasion an irregularity in the produce of the grass, but will likewise be 

 found inconvenient when the meadow is mowed. This may be efi'ected 

 in various ways, either by frequent plowing and harrowing or by the 

 raising of turnips, potatoes, Indian corn, or other fallow crops, which by 

 the shade they afford, as well as by the culture they require during their 

 growth, are calculated to reduce the ground to a friable state. 



