The Agriculture of TForcestershire. 



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per acre, but there is not mucli let at the latter price, except as 

 accommodation land. 



It is very unfortunate that so much of the land was laid to 

 grass in ridges in this county, as this is a source of the greatest 

 annoyance to the farmer of the present day, who wants to avail 

 himself of mowing and haymaking machines, and horse-rakes, 

 without which (at least the two last) a large quantity of hay can 

 hardly be made in this day of scarcity of manual labour; great 

 loss is annually sustained in this county from this cause, for I 

 have observed that much of the hay, from want of more frequent 

 moving, has been sunburnt and turned brown, having lost its 

 valuable juices from too great exposure to the sun, in fact I am 

 inclined to think that sun spoils more hay than the rain. 



As an illustration of the effect of the scarcity of labour, an 

 amusing incident, to those not personally interested, occurred last 

 summer on the borders, in an adjoining county, where mowers 

 were so scarce that they not only had 5^. per acre for mowing, 

 but insisted on being conveyed in a fly to their work. 



Messrs. Wheeler and Son, of Gloucester, who have devoted 

 much attention to grasses, and have published a list of those 

 suitable for each geological formation, give me the following as 

 best adapted for renovating the old pastures of the Lias and New 

 Jled Sandstone. 



Table 1. 



Table of Grasses to be used on the Upper Lias, Lower Lias, and Marlstoue, 

 for renovatino; Old Pastures. 



On Light 

 Soils. 



On IMedium 

 Soils. 



Perennial Cow - grass (Trifolium pratense"! 



perenne) / 



Perennial White Clover (Trifolium repens) 



Red Clover (Trifolium pratense) 



Yellow Trefoil (Medicago lupulina) .. 



Lucerne (Medicago sativum) 



Yarrow (Achillea millefolia) 



Sheep's Parsley (Petroselinum sativum) 

 Smooth Meadow-grass (Poa pratensis) 

 Wood Meadow-grass 'Poa nemovalis) .. 



Timothy (Phleum pratense) 



Evergreen Rye (Lolium sempervirens) 

 Pacey's Perennial Rye (Lolium Paceyanum) 

 Meadow Foxtail f^Alopecurus pratensis) 

 Golden Oat-grass (A vena flavescens) .. 

 Meadow Fescue 'Festuca pratensis) 

 Various-leaved Fescue (Festuca heterophylla 

 Sweet Vernal (Anthoxanthum odoratum^ . . 



ozs. 







8 

 

 



lbs. ozs. 



On Heavy 



Soils. 



2 8 



3 



2 

 



To be used in proportion of 10 lbs. per acre. 



