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the seeds of the valuable and permanent pasture grasses, 

 freni the farmer's own farm. The manner of obtaining an 

 unfailing supply of the seeds of the permanent pasture 

 grasses, at a trifling expense, from the farmer's own farm, 

 was before mentioned, but I may be permitted to revert 

 again to a subject so important. By the help of the 

 figures, and the botanical discriminating characters of the 

 different species of grasses given in this work, the farmer 

 may soon furnish himself, from his best grass land, with the 

 seeds of most of the essential grasses, at least in sufficient 

 quantity to form a first plantation. Those species of grasses 

 which are not on his own farm, the seedsman, or a neigh- 

 bour, may readily supply, in quantity sufficient for the same 

 purpose. These seeds being obtained, a piece of good rich 

 land should be selected, of a nature i#termediate as to 

 moisture and dryness. It may be quite unnecessary to ob- 

 serve, that this soil must be perfectly clean, free from all 

 kinds of root-weeds and seed of annual weeds. The surface 

 or tilth cannot be made too fine, level, and consolidated, to 

 receive the seeds. The middle of May or the beginning of 

 June are favourable seasons for sowing the seed ; but should 

 a naked summer fallow be requned, in order to bring the 

 land to the necessary state of tilth and cleanness now men- 

 tioned, the beginning of August, or from that time until the 

 beginning of September, will be found favourable seasons 

 for sowing. The ground thus prepared should be divided 

 into three parts, to correspond to the three different combi- 

 nations of the essential grasses ; which combinations were 

 shown to ripen their seeds respectively at three different 

 periods of the season. The seeds of the different species 

 recommended above should be mixed in the proportions 

 stated, and each of the three combinations, or mixtures of 

 seed, sown on the division of ground set apart for it. The 

 seeds may either be sown broad-cast or in drills ; whichever 

 mode will deposit the seed in the most regular manner is the 

 best, for the clean state of the tilth will render weeding the 

 first year unnecessary, and the combination or mixture of 

 different species of the superior grasses will afterwards so 

 fully occupy the land as to prevent the intrusion of weeds 



