32S Cultivation of Arable Land. Tall Oat GrafsMeadow Oafs-tail Grafs. 



it getsccarfe: iffown with red clover, in the proportion of two bufhels of the grafs 

 feeds to ten pounds of the clover, it forms a better fward ; for as the latter wears 

 out or difappears, the former re fumes its place, and lads better in the land. It is 

 a grafs that vegetates better during the winter feafon than many others.* It 

 affords much feed, and \vhich may be gathered at but little expenfe, as about four 

 (hillings the bulhcl.f It has been found highly beneficial in affording an early 

 feed for.mecp.J 



Tall Oat GY0/}.[ This is a grafs fometimes found abundantly in meadows. It 

 is early, .coarfe, and productive; but affords a plentiful aftermath. In excellence it 

 approaches the meadow fox-tail, for which it may, in many cafes, prove no indiffe- 

 ,rent fubditute.|| It is cultivated on the continent with advantage. 



This, like the preceding grafs, is found the mod beneficial when retained in a 

 el ofe date of feeding.** It makes good hay, and experiment has Ihown it to 

 afford a greater weight of produce than mod other graffes.ft On the continent, 

 in comparifon with common grafs, it is found to yield in the proportion of twenty 

 to two.JJ 



Meadow Cat s-Tail Grafs, or Timothy. ^ This grafs fucceeds bed in moid foils 

 and fituations,is very productive, but coarfeand late. It pofleffes no advantages over 

 the meadow fox-tail. Itis the mod proper for clays, the moider kinds of loams, and 

 thofe of the peat nature. When cultivated on moid loams with a fubdratum of the 

 clayey marl defcription, it has been found on trial very ufeful, efpecially when kept 

 clofely fed down by fheep.||j| According to the accounts of travellers in America, 

 it conditutes the principal fupport of cattle and other animals, wherever the lands 

 ape of the meadow kind. It affords plenty of feed, of which a bumel is faid by 

 fome to be fufficient, when mixed with thofe of other forts, to fow four or five 

 acres of land. They are capable of being procured in a perfectly clean date from 

 America, in any proportion, at the eafy expenfe of about a guinea the bufhel.j. 



Hay-Seeds. Thefe are the feeds collected in hay-lofts and chambers, or frcm un 

 der the dacks ; and mud of courfe be a mixture of the feeds of various forts of grades 

 both good and bad, as well as of other forts of plants that may have been upon the 



* Young in Communications to the Board, &c. vol. III. t Ibid. 



^ Young s Eaftcrn Tour, vol. I. ff Avena elatior. \\ Curtis s Practical Obfervations. 



^ Annals of Agriculture. ** Youngin Communications, &c. vol. III. 



i f Swfiync s Gramina Pascua, Fol. edit. j; J Obf. Soc. de Bretagne pour 1 Annee 1759 



*T5! Phlcumpratensc. ^Curtis s Practical Obfervations. 



HI) Young in Communications, &c. 

 4 Ibid. 



