STATISTICAL SURVEY 



After-grafs. 



The management of after-grafs requires judgment ; 

 cattle fhould not be turned into it until they can enjoy 

 a full bite, nor fhould they be kept out of it fo long, as 

 to let it be deftroyed by their trampling. It has been 

 a queflion, whether after-grafs left upon the ground 

 acls as a manure. I have feen it tried, but I could 

 not perceive, that the ground was much benefited by it; 

 provided the meadows were (hut up in proper time, 

 and the lofs of food is fo very great, it fhould not be 

 given up for any thing lefs than certainty. A good 

 flock of after-grafs is one of the beft fupplies to keep 

 up cattle, that have been taken in good condition from 

 the paflures. The after-grafs this year, 1801, was fo 

 luxuriant, as to afford in many places a good crop, 

 very much owing to the early cutting of the meadows, 

 A .method of faving it I faw, which anfwered per- 

 fectly, was to mix it in the flack with layers of oat- 

 ftraw ; this kept the foft hay from clapping together, 

 and, by communicating fome of its juices to the ftraw, 

 it improved its quality, which was very perceivable 

 from the eagernefs of all kinds of cattle to eat it. 



The following catalogue of grafTes, with their cha- 

 racters, was furnifhed to me by Mr. Templeton, of 

 Orange-grove, near Belfaft, with all the liberality of a 



man 



