&quot; Cultivation of Arable Land. Aft er- management of new Grafs Lands. 



plifhcd as early in the beginning of Auguftas pofllble. A rollermay.be applied 

 over the land, when in a fuitable dry condition about Ocilobcr. But where the lat 

 ter end of fummer has been the period of fowing, it is recommended that the land 

 ihould have three ploughings performed upon it in the early fpring months, when 

 the weather is fufficiently dry, and the grafs-feeds be again put in with a crop of 

 buck wheat in May, \\hich, though it is not a fuitable crop for the heavy wet forts 

 of land, fometimcs anfwers well in dry feafdns ; and in wet ones, as affording 

 but little feed, may be mown, when in blofibm as a green food for cows. From 

 its not robbing the land .much, of its fertility, it is . well adapted .for. the above pur- 

 pole.* 



In regard to the application of manure to new laid down grafs lands, though it 

 will ftldom be abfolutely rcquilite, where they have been returned to the date of 

 fvvard under the degree of fertility and preparation that has been already advifed, 

 it may in mod cafes be had recourfe to with great advantage and improvement,, 

 as it is probably one of the belt means of preferving a good clofe date of fward 

 when judicicufly employed. It has been remarked by an experienced cultivator* 

 that though in general no manure will be wanted till the land has been mown for 

 hay, there can be little doubt but that great additional improvement will be 

 produced where manure of any fort can be applied, and that . &quot; the oftener the land 

 is manured, the greater w v ill be the improvement.&quot;-)-. 



Jf the lands have been laid to grafs with corn crops^ the application of a flight 

 drcffing of manure in the autumn following may, as has been already feen, be of 

 great utility in fixing and encouraging the growth of the young grafs-plants; but 

 in other cafes the latter end of the fummer following, or very early in the autumn^ 

 are fuppofed by feme to be. the mod beneficial periods for the purpofe : but as 

 at thefe times, in many indances, much lofs of manure may be fudained both by 

 . evaporation, and the warning of heavy rains and fnows, it may be a better and more 

 advifable practice to perform the buiinefs in the early fpring months, efpecially 

 where the lands are to be conducted under the fey the, as in this way the enriching 

 material will be ready to exert its influence at the moment the young plants begin 

 to fend forth their new moots ; and thus not only afford more aflidance in thick 

 ening and invigorating the new fward, but be lefs in danger of being ufelefsly 

 diflipated and wafted . 



But whtre manure cannot be fpared. for repeatedly drefllng new grafs lands, as 



* Young in Communications te the Board of Agriculture, vol. Ill, -f Maxwell in Ibid, 



Seftion on Manures* 



