238 EFFECT OF CLIMATE. 



phere and the soil, which is ordinarily present in the 

 climate of England. Every observing farmer knows 

 that grasses grown on our low, reclaimed swamp lands, 

 for instance, make less milk, and less flesh and fat in 

 animals, than the same species grown on our dry, up- 

 land soils. The same difference must exist, to some 

 extent, between our grasses arid the grasses grown in 

 a comparatively moist climate, where they have the 

 advantage of more frequent rains, which push them to 

 a more complete development and give them greater 

 luxuriance, increasing, of course, the quantity of their 

 produce, while their quality cannot be improved in the 

 points alluded to. 



