3-^2 Cbftvaation tf Arable Land. After-management of new Grafs Lands*. 



ro keep the grounds irnder the plough, and their indifference in refpect to the ob 

 taining of the tnoft proper forts of feeds, there may be danger of the bufinefs being 

 impropely performed,* 



Afta -management of new Grafs Lands. This is a matter of confiderabie im 

 portance, and upon which much of the fuccefs of forming good grafs land 

 depends, 



As foorcas the crop with which the feeds have been fown has been removed, it 

 3s advifed by fome to have recourfe to rolling the land with a moderately heavy 

 roller, when it is in fuch a ftatc of drynefs as juft to admit the impreflion of the 

 implement rt as by this means, from the mould being preffed clofely about the 

 roots of the plants, their early growth may be much benefited, and the danger of 

 drought prevented. The practice is, however, the moft necefTary in the more 

 light and porous defcriptions of land. Others likewife recommend the applica 

 tion of manure at this period, in order to promote the growth and fupport of the 

 young grals-plants; |; but this would feem quite unneceffary when the mode of pre 

 paration that has been juft defcribed has been attended to. 



As the furface of fuch grounds as have been newly laid down to the (late of 

 fward is, from the previous tillage which they require, extremely tender, and 

 readily broken into holes for fome time even in the drier defcriptions of land, the 

 turning in of cattle with the view of feeding them down muft in moft cafes be 

 highly prejudicial by the treading which they caufe. The bell practice is therefore 

 probably to fuffer no fort of ftock to be put upon fuch lands till the fpring after 

 their being laid down ; or where the farmer finds itabfolutely neceflary to turn- 

 upon the lands, the lighted fort of ftock fhould conftantly be felected for the pur- 

 pofe. It has been obferved that the advantage of feeding fuch lands during the 

 autumn and winter feafons is fcarcely a matter of any confequence, as the fpring 

 feed for Iheep, where it is omitted, is of fo much greater utility, a very early paf- 

 turage being in this way afforded for ewes and lambs.|| 



As to the advantages in the fucceeding management that may be had recourfe 

 to, in different cafes and circumftances, there is much contradiction in the opi 

 nions of different experienced cultivators, fome maintaining the fuperiority of 

 keeping the ground clofely fed down by fheep or neat cattle, while others conceive 

 mowing or feeding as preferable. There feems little reafon to doubt but that feed- 



* Communications to the Board of Agriculture, var. loc. vol. III.. 



+ Cartwright and Maxwell in Ibid. + VVilkinfon in Ibid. Maxwell in Ibid, 



tl. Young in-Coramunications.to the Boardj. &c. 



