OF THE COUNTY OF DOWN. ut 



productive than the mere fpring of natural herbage for 

 the firfl year, hurts the future produce and exhaufls 

 the ground ; but this effec"l I could never obferve, and 

 in the diflrifts above-mentioned, the fowing of graft 

 feed is reckoned to prepare the ground moft excellently 

 for future crops of grain. In the fame part of the 

 country the farmers are particularly careful in faving 

 their rye grafs, &c. 



Hay; after mowing it is gathered, bound into 

 fheaves, and flooked like grain; in that fituation it 

 remains until it is thoroughly dry, and free from all 

 danger of heating, as hay-feeds of every kind are 

 eafily hurt by being warmed in the flack. Hay-feed 

 fown in autumn fucceeds remarkably well ; one of the 

 befl crops of hay I ever faw was produced this year, 

 1 80 1, from feed fown in the month of September 

 1800, the ground effectually broken by large harrows 

 before it was fown, and afterwards lightly covered 

 with fmaller ones. 



Clover. 



Clover being of fuch confequerice, not only as food 

 for cattle, and, confequently, as a means of raifing 

 manure, but likewife as a cleaner of the ground, and a 

 preparative for raifing fuperior crops of grain, I fhall 

 here throw together 'feveral detached pieces of infor- 

 mation I have collected. 



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