FARMER'S ASSISTANT. i39 



The Graziers of Greatbritain, in laying down their grass- 

 lands, make use of much more seed than is usual in this 

 Country. Whether they use more than is profitable, ex- 

 periments alone are competent to determine. Let one rod 

 square of ground, properly prepared, be laid down with a 

 given quantity ot seed ; another square rod with a greater 

 quantity, and another with a still greater; then carefully 

 gather aud weigh the product of each square rod separate- 

 ly ; and if that which has most seed has an increase of pro- 

 duct sufficient to pay for the extra seed, and about thirty 

 per cent more, that quantity of seed may be most advisable 

 to give the ground. 



In the same way, it may be ascertained, how far it is 

 profitable to sow the ground with different kinds of grasses ? 

 in order to increase the product of the whole. This is a 

 matter that is much attended to in Greatbritain, as will be 

 seen by the following directions of Mr. Young and Mr. 

 Toilet, for laying down particular soils to grass. Thus, Mr. 

 Young directs for an acre of clay-land, the following grasses 

 and proportions of each : 



Of Cowgrass, five pounds; trefoil (common red clover) 

 five do.; dogstail, 10 do.; and of fescue and foxtail, one 

 bushel. 



For an acre of loam, of white-clover, five pounds ; dogs- 

 tail, ten do. $ ray, one peck; fescue, three do.; foxtail, three 

 do. ; and of yarrow, two do. 



For an acre of sand, of white-clover, seven pounds; 

 trefoil, five do. ; burnet, six do.; ray, one peck; and yar- 

 row, one bushel. 



Mr. Toilet directs, that, for an acre of such dry light soil 

 as is adapted to the culture of turnips, the following pro- 

 portions of seeds be given. 



Of smoothstalked poa or meadowgrass, six quarts; ray- 

 grass, four do ; dogstail, six do. ; yellow oatgrass, four do. ; 

 cocksfoot, two do.; vernalgrass, one do ; Cowgrass, three 

 do. ; white-clover, two do, ; ribgrass, two do, ; and of yar- 

 row, two do. 



Again, for such soil as is of the moister kind of upland, he 

 allows, for an acre, of foxtail, six quarts ; roughstalked poa, 

 six do. ; meadow-fescue, six do. ; smoothstalked poa, four 

 do ; raygrass, two do. ; vernalgrass, one do. ; Cowgrass, 

 three do.; white clover, two do.; ribgrass, two do.; and of 

 yarrow, two do. 



For firm low lands, liable to be overflowed, he allows of 

 foxtail, 2 pecks ; meadow-fescue, two do- ; roughstalked 

 poa, two do.; raygrass, one do.; vernalgrass, one quart; 

 white-clover, two do.; Cowgrass, two do.; and of ribgrass, 

 two do. 



