570 Cultivation of A mile Land. Sain if out After-management of. 



feldorri fucceed well together, from there being a continual conteft in their growth 

 for an afcendency, it is probably a better practice to increafe the proportion of the 

 feed without mixing it with that of other forts. Mr. Marfhall, however, feems 

 to think the method beneficial in ultimately procuring a fine clean crop of faint- 

 foin. 



After-management. On this being properly attended to, a great deal of the fuc- 

 cefs-in the culture of this plant depends. The moft experienced cultivators of the 

 grafs advife its being cut for hay inftead of being paftured. But others think it 

 more advantageous neither to cut nor pafture it in the autumn of the firfl year. 

 It is probable that both practices may be proper under different circumftances ; as 

 in the richer forts of foil, where this plant moftly affords a tolerable crop when 

 fown alone the firil year, it may be mown with propriety and without much injury 

 being done to the plants; but in thofe of the thinner and more poor kinds, where 

 the crops are in general the firft feafon but thin on the ground and light, it may 

 be advantageous to let them remain without being cut or fed down by flock, as in 

 this way they may fprcad more, and form a better and more clofe fward in the 

 following year. By the plants in this cafe being fuffered to feed, betides the advan 

 tage juft mentioned, they will have acquired a great vigour of growth, and thefuc- 

 ceeding crops be greatly increafed from the fhedding of the feeds. 



Jn all cafes, in the fucceed ing fummers, a crop of hay maybe taken, and the after- 

 grafs be fed down with any forts of flock but fheep till towards December, care 

 being taken that they do not eat it in too clofe a manner, as where that is the 

 cafe, from the largenefs of the roots, they may be in danger of injuring the crowns 

 of the plants. In the following autumns there will, however, be lefs rifk in this 

 refpect, and fheep, as well as cattle flock, may be turned in and kept upon the paf- 

 turcs till they are all well eaten down, being always careful to fhutthem up as early 

 as poffible in the beginning of the year.* 



The quantity of produce muft of courfe be liable to vary much according to the 

 nature of the foil, and the care that has been beflowcd in the preparation : on a 

 medium of foil and culture it may probably be eflimated at about two tons. The 

 poorer and thinner flapled forts of land, worth little more than five (hillings an acre, 

 will feldom afford lefs than from a ton to a ton and a half. 



On the thinner forts of foil it can feldom be cut more than once, but on thofe 

 of the deeper kinds t\ro crops are fometimes taken in the fame way as with 

 clover. 



* Kent s Hints. 



