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T\v^ floeef s fefcue makes our fheep very fat. 



The perennial darnel is the beft grafs for 

 hay on chalky hills. 



The fea lyme-grafs and fea mat-grafs keep 

 the fands on barren maritime trads from being 

 blown away. 



The moft minute feeds of gra[s afford nou- 

 rifhment to fmall birds. 1 he graffes befides 

 sive a moft agreeable color to the earth, and 

 fill up the intervals between plants of other 

 kinds i fo that Uiey ferve both for pleafure, 

 and utility. The Creator has affigned certain 

 fpecies of grafs to every different i]:>ecles of 

 foil, which the hufbandman is obliged to know 

 in order to make the moft advantage of his 

 lands. Befides certain grajjes are eat by fome 

 animals, and left untouched by others ; fo that 

 without the knowledge of thefe he cannot 

 avoid falling into error. It. Scand. 



§. 9- 



He that would exercife the art of huft>an- 

 dry with the greateft advantage, ought to en- 

 deavor to get acquainted with all kinds of 

 vegetables, and find out what fort of foil fuits 

 each of them beft. He ought to know, that 

 fome delight in open and expofed fiaiations, 

 others in fhady •, ibme in moift ground, others 

 N 4 in 



