382 Cultivation of Moorland. 



him to judge what comparative return may be fairly expected 

 from stock in after years in a hill country remote from corn- 

 markets, but where all animals can readily be fatted and. walk to 

 market, with tlie produce of tlie farm upon their carcase. 



The (jrasses to be sown should be those which have the quali- 

 fications for quick and abundant growth. During tlie last few 

 years I have sown the following quantities and qualities, at an 

 average cost of — 



Per Acre, 

 s. d. 



3 pecks of Pacey rye-grass, at Qs. per bushel 4 6 



1 peck of Italian rye-grass, at 6s. 6fZ. per bushel .. .. 1 7^ 



4 lbs. of Timothy grass, at 6s. per stone 19 



2 lbs. of cow-gi'ass, at 9s. 6cZ. per stone 14 



4 lbs. of white clover, at 10s. per stone 2 10 



3 lbs. of rib-grass, at 6s. per stone 5 



Small quantity of parsley-seed 8^ 



13 2 



While I believe it is admitted that corn is liable to be lodged 

 and spoiled upon new land when sown after the first root crop, 

 it is equally worthy of note that no land can well be too rich for 

 the o;rowth of succulent grasses. However luxuriant these may 

 be, they can at all times be overtaken by good management, and 

 kept in good and respectable order ; and, as time goes on, these 

 pasture lands may be safely and profitably crqpped with corn, 

 especially oats, and afterward^ renewed again by roots, &c. 

 These pastures remain good about four years, and then require 

 to be broken up for oats, thus completing a seven-years' course 

 of cropping. Then follows the usual routine again, viz, — 



Acres. 



1st year, roots — say " 30 



2nd year, rape and grass seeds 30 



3rd, 4th, 5th, and 6th years, jjasture .. .. 120 

 7th year, corn 30 



210 



In the making of subsequent improvements upon the grass- 

 lands, there is no outlay more simple and efficient than the use 

 of decomposed vegetable mould, mixed, about six months pre- 

 vious to use, with lime or salt, and then carted on the pasture 

 or " dry meadow " lands, at a short distance from the mould or 

 compost heaps. 



We have carted out many hundred loads of these decomposed 

 vegetable soils witliout the aid of any artificial mixture, and the 

 effect upon brown dry land has been surprising, and in many 

 cases fully equal to that of farmyard dung. So that occasional 

 bogs at different parts of the farm prove to be valuable adjuncts 



