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Ing out the weeds, mowing off the tufts of the grafj 

 in the rank parts, and feeding it fine, will, in two 

 years, rellore it to its original flate o^jirjis, without 

 any other agricultural management whatever. There 

 is a queftion, which has been long controverted 

 among graziers, viz. whether the firfl pafture is not 

 more frequently found to confifl of a (hoal black foil 

 covering a flrong blue clay not more than ten inches 

 deep, than it is in a rich mould of a yard deep ? 



I have obferved, from the different ftate of floods 

 at different periods of time, that the flioal land is 

 fituate fomewhat the lowefl, and therefore vegetates 

 the quickelt, which quick vegetation is facilitated 

 from the folidity of the clay not permitting the ex- 

 treme rlchnefs of the foil to penetrate its pores, fo 

 as to fuck up or draw off that moiflure, the quality 

 of which tends to nourifli the grafs. Hence it is 

 that it grows fafler, is of a finer quality, and will 

 fatten fooner, and even continue to fatten for a fort- 

 night, perhaps a month, fuch cattle as have been 

 at a ftand upon the deep foil. On all thefe ac- 

 counts this fort of land is generally deemed the beft j 

 but notwithftanding this preference, I hold up the 

 deep pafture in competition with it -, for as the blue 

 clay will not permit the hafly downfall of the win- 

 ter's rain to fink through it, a fort of half-flooding 

 cnfucs, and it becomes too tender to bear the large 

 cattle or even heavy flieep in the wet feafons. Such 

 land is therefore occafionally rendered ufclefs, which 



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