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tlie same time: grass, weeds, and crops, 

 during the four or five following years of 

 jny remaining on the farm, shewed this in 

 their great growth: where the fodder-house, 

 three hundred feet in length and twenty in 

 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 

 fed. 



Timothy -G ra$s. 



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, lasts 

 till winter, is hardy and gives large crops* 

 The seeds of it shatter out before the heads 

 are all turned from the green colour. * 

 Watch die moment for saving the seed, 



