348 Cultivation of Arable Land. dfter-management of new Grafs Lands. 



rendering the herbage more fine and fweet, but in renovating the fvvard. &quot; The 

 fcrapings of the road, or fand-drift, are, he fays, of great fervice in producing a fweet 

 herbage. Wherever the fweepings of his own walks have been laid on an adjoining 

 common, he has obferved the coarfe grafs difappearing, and the fine benrs fb ow 

 ing themfelves. fie has a field now in his own occupation which, from a piece 

 of coarfe herbage, has been brought into fuch a luxuriant ftate of fward that it is 

 efteemed the beft piece of grafs land in the parifh. The improvement was in part 

 owing tt&amp;gt; its fituation near a brook, which brought down from a contiguous com-, 

 mon a quantity of leaves and fand-drift : thefe were carefully collected and laid on 

 the meadow every year.&quot; 



And he has ufed fold-yard liquor with advantage. &quot; Having laid down a field 

 to grafs immediately adjoining his fold-yard, which was fituated above it, by means 

 of pipes and trenches he had the liquor from the fold-yard conducted over the 

 field, after having collected it in a refervoir: the effect of it in deftroying coarfe 

 grafs, and producing a fweeter fward, was very remarkable. * 



The effects of watering have likewife been found powerful in the reproduction of 

 fward ; &quot; and where it can be had at command, land may with great facility be 

 broken up for corn, and afterwards returned to a ftate of meadow. In two different 

 meadows, which during the winter were frequently flooded, he has pared off part 

 of the turf, and has obferved that the ground became green the firfl year, arid on 

 the fecond it was fb covered with grafs that he could with difficulty diftinguifh 

 where the fvvard had been taken off. He has known the fame land pared a fecond 

 time in three years, and fpeedily covered again with a coat of fward after having 

 been frequently flooded.&quot; 



The effects of the following manures^ according to the experience of the fame cul 

 tivator, would feem to be chiefly in promoting the luxuriance of the graffes, and 

 ofcourfeto be principally advantageous in rcfpcct to the quantity of produce.. 

 &quot; Tallow-chandler s graves on being ufed to the amount of a ton an acre, at half a- 

 crown a hundred weight, the grafs was rendered fo rank that for fome time cattle 

 would not touch it, and the hay was too coarfe for fale. On account of its rank- 

 nefs he generally ufcs it mixed with mould or ditch earth. Its effects are vilible 

 for fomc years after it has been laid on in the fuperior verdure of the grafs.&quot; 



It is obferved, that the effedts of &quot;night foil have been abundantly proved both 

 in Flanders and the neighbourhood of London. The quantity ufed on grafs land 

 is about three loads an acre. It isaftronger and more permanent manure than 

 vommon dung.&quot; 



In the fixing, producing, and rendering the white clover more permanent, the 



