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made ufe of with advantage, after fallow crops, for fowing grafs feeds, efpecially in 

 cafes where the lands are in too rich a condition for the fuccefsful gro\?th of corn. 

 But in the more northern parts of the kingdom, and expofed fituatlons, where the 

 frofls fet in at an early period, it may be in general the moft advifable practice to 

 put the feeds in, in the vernal months, with fuitable crops of the grain kind. An 

 intelligent writer of much experience has indeed obferved, that grafs feeds an fwer 

 almoft equally well in either method ; he prefers the Auguft fowing without corn, 

 though the fuocefs of his trials in the different feafons has not juftified any dcci- 

 live conclufion.* It is even admitted that in moory and mountainous fituations,, 

 where the fnows come early, autumnal fowings are not advifable, or to be perform 

 ed later than the very early part of Auguft; the vernal feafon with oats for being 

 cut young for foiling, or hay, is conftantly to be preferred. Mr. Dalton, in; 

 Yorkmire, after trying other methods, recommends^ the autumn without corn as&amp;lt; 

 the mod advifable. And the Reverend Mr. Clofe Hates that &quot; a friend of his,wi(h- 

 ing to procure a good meadow or pafture around his houfe, fallowed the land for 

 barley; but the fpring proving wet, and the foil being a ftrong loam, he could 

 only put half of it in order for that crop, which was fown, .and laid with clover 

 and rye grafs. The other part was fallowed, and fown in Auguft with the fweep-- 

 ings of hay chambers. The barley was a good crop, and the clover and rye grafs; 

 were probably equal to the firft year s cut of hay. The fecond year the artificial : 

 gralfes began to fail ; worfe the third, fourth, and-fifth : the fixth year, after hav 

 ing received two dreflings, the fpontaneous product of the foil began to give a 

 fleece over the furface of the land. About ten years after thefe lands were fown; 

 Mr. Clofe faw this field, when the part fown in Auguft was worth at leaft fifteen: 

 Shillings per acre more than the part which had been fown with artificial grafles in 

 the barley. Thus from adual experiments, numbers of which he could adduce,. 

 he concludes that fowing the fweepings of hay chambers in Auguft is preferable 

 to fowing artificial graffes in the fpring with any crop of corn. Suppofe, fays he, 

 the corn worth five pounds per acre, the difference in the produce in hay or feed 

 in the fecond, third, fourth, and fifth years would more than counterbalance this ; 

 and the proprietor would find a permanent improvement in his land of from fifteen 

 Ihillings to twenty millings per acre.&quot; 



On comparative experiments being made with corn in the. fpring months, and i 

 without.it in Auguft, the latter was found by much the beft mode by different? 

 cultivators.f 



* Rev. Mr. Young in Communications to the Board, &c. vo i III. 

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