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fall; it starts instantly after the scythe with almost in- 
credible vigour, neither waiting the healing of its 
wounds or fresh shoots from its roots. 
<3 imothy appears to suit the sellers of hay beter than 
those who feed all their hay and grass on their farms; 
after the first cut but little is to be expected from it, 
unless growing in rich moist bottoms, yet with the ad- 
dition of this grass, cattle may be longer kept on the 
first erop, and perhaps earlier fatted for matket, and I 
have observed none that they eat more fredly or on 
which they thrive faster. 
The green grass on this place has grown after clove 
which had run out, and as it has not been in my power to 
enrich those grounds until this fall, consequently the 
sie, crops have been light; but I have observed on spots 
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accidentally enriched, that the vegetation has been quick 
and luxuriant; whether it will require too much ma- 
nure to bring the rest up to this standard, and to keep 
- jt so, is to me entirely unknown, but I find it forms a 
close pile, springs early, arrives quickly to perfection, 
and stands the nipping frosts of winter perhaps better 
than any grass which grows on this place in sufficient 
quantities to excite attention ; and notwithstanding the 
ground was thin and the first crop cut late, it has gene- 
rally afforded a tolerable third cut, the greater part of 
which has been fed green to the horses and cattle in the 
yards. The mowing commenced the 13th of Novem- 
ber and continued until the third of December, when a 
fall of snow put a stop to the scythe, and it is likely to 
all further progress in this business, as the grass which 
is now left would, under the most favourable circym- 
