S6S OBSERVATIONS ON GRASSES. 



care to fow them feparately, in a very little 

 time he would have wherewithal to flock his 

 farm properly, according to the nature of each 

 foil, and might at the fame time fpread thefe 

 feeds feparately over the nation by fupplying 



old fe'v era! times f <v:ho ha-ve gathered many forts for 7ne tvithout 

 making any mijiakes, after i had once Jhe-vjn them the forts i 

 ^wanted. 



J ha^je procured thus the creeping benty the fine bent, thefheep's 

 fefcue, the crefied dog-tail^ l^c. infufficient quantities to begin a 

 flock, hut for nvant of a proper opportunity of cultinjating them 

 myfelf or meeting nxiith any one njoho had zeal enough to bejionx) 

 a proper care on them^ my coUedions of this kind hitherto hanje 

 enly pronjed that the fcheme is in itfelffeafhle. 



^his 'very year 1 76 1, a little hoy by my direFtioii gathered ai 

 much of the crefied dog-tail in 3 hours by th: fide of a road, as 

 fwhen JJjedy yielded upon <weighing aho<ve a quarter of a pound 

 a<verdupois, perfectly free from hvfks. As this feed is fmall the 

 fi:illfuU iL-ill eafily judge ho^wfarfuch a quantity 'would go if 

 properly employed. 



My 'very efimahle and ingenious friend Mr. Aldavorth, nvha 

 ivas ivitnefs of the fact 'which i lafl mentioned , at my deftre or^ 

 dered a fmall part of a 7neado^Wy near his feat at Stanlake, 

 fwhich had better graffes and lefs mixed than the refl, to be left 

 U7tmo<wed till the feeds 'vjerefit for gathering. This piece yielded 

 upon threjbing and ff ting a fidl bujhel by meafure of almoji 

 pure feed of the crefed dog-tail. In cafe any one Jhould be in- 

 tlined to follo^w this example, i think it highly neceffary to cb- 

 fer've that care muji be taken to mowu the grafs before it Jheds ; 

 that it be mo^wed 'very early in the morning before the de'w is 

 off the ground y and that it ought not be fpread as in making hay ^ 

 hut left as it falls from thefcyths afuffdent time^ and then gently 

 tumid ever, 



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