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the seeding down of such with artificial grasses, but when the 
old lands have been ploughed up, and the natural grasses de- 
stroyed, it requires many years to recover them. The recom- 
mendation then at once suggests itself to save a field for old 
grass, and if this be done, and stock removed from it in the early 
summer to allow the grasses to seed, it will be found that a very 
fair bottom can by degrees be secured, and a useful field will 
be available for grazing in late summer, autumn, and winter. 
