Mr. UHommedieu on improving poor Lands, &c. 107 



produce a fafficlency of feed the firfl year to pay for the feed 

 fown and the tillage ; and the next year a confiderable crop 

 of hay, which would be a clear profit ; and if the lands were 

 ploughed up the next fpring after cutting the hay, while the 

 roots of the grafs were alive, it would fo inrich the land that 

 in the next procefs the feed and hay would be much increafed, 

 and by continuing this mode of culture the lands would be 

 made good without further manure. I would propofe that the 

 advantages of this mode of improving poor lands be afcertained 

 by experiments to be made on different foils by gentlemen of 

 the Society Vv^ho are farmers. 



