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ri'i€ same time: grass, weeds, and crops, 

 during the four or five following years of 

 my remaining on the farm, shewed this in. 

 their great growth: where the fodder-house, 

 three hundred feet in length and twenty ia 

 breadth, stood and sheltered the ground, the 

 richness of the soil was strongly marked ; 

 when but a faint superiority, over the com- 

 mon field, appeared where the cattle were 



£ed. 



Timotfiij-Grass. 



Timothy-grass, when cut not before 

 milk is in the seeds, [after the milky- 

 quality is gone from the seed], makes a 

 brownish and seemingly harsh hay : but 

 horses, the best of judges, prefer it to early 

 cut green hay. On some accounts orchard- 

 grass may be preferred, for standing mea- 

 dows. It comes early in the spring, last? 

 till w^inter, is hardy and gives large crops* 

 The seeds of it shatter out before the head)=i 

 are all turned from the green colour.— 

 Watch the moment for saving the -seed- 



