30^ '^ OP PASTURE GROUND. Part Ilf. 



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 and .die holes llior.ld be left open all the winter, to dellroy the 



It is of great fervice to roll the turf, in February and Marclr, 

 w|tr},.'a heavy v/coden roller; always obferv'ing to do it In moift 

 weaslier, that the roller nxay the better level the furHice. This ren- 

 ders the mowing of the grafs much eafier than when the ground 

 lies uneven, and alib makes the turf thicker, and the grafs grow 

 the fweeter. Mr. Miller thinks it likewife a great help to deftroy 

 weeds. ■ ' 



Feeding of up-land paflures, every other year, is another im- 

 provement of them : for where this is not praftifed, the land muft 

 be manured at reaft every third year. The time to fpread tlie ma- 

 nure, is in autumn, before the rains have foaked the ground, and 

 rendered it too foft to cart on : Though by the means of broad 

 wheels, which do not cut the fward, this precaution is almoft ren- 

 dered ufelefs ; becaufe rhey may with fafety go on the grafs at any 

 time in the winter, or even in the fpring. If the manure is laid on 

 at this feafon, and carefully fpread, and all the clods well broken, 

 the winter rains will wafli the falts down to the roots of the grafs^, 

 which will receive the advantage of it the following fpring. ■. -. 



Particular care Ihould be taken to deflroy all weeds in the paflure, 

 every fpring and autumn : for otherwife, they will ripen their feeds> 

 which will fpread over the ground, and kill the grafs : nor can they 

 afterwards be rooted out, without great difficulty. 



The grafs of up-land paftures feldom degenerates, if the land is. ; 

 tolerably good : but that of low meadows, v/hich are overflowed in. 

 winter, grows harlh and rufliy in a few years. ,__> 



" There is no part of hufbandry," fays Mr. Miller, " of which 

 *' the farmers are, in general, more ignorant than that of the pa- 

 " fture. Moft of them fuppofe, that when an old pafture is plowed 

 ♦' up, it can never be brought to have a good fward again : {b their 

 ** common method of managing their land after plowing, and get- 

 <* ting two or three crops of corn, is to fow with their crop of bar- 

 << ley, fome grafs feeds (as they call them) ; that is, either the red 

 ♦* clover, which they intend to fland two years after the corn is 

 '* taken off the ground, or rye-grafs mixed with trefoil : but as all 

 *' thefe are at moft but biennial plantSj-\^hofe roots decay foon after 

 " their feeds are perfed-ed, fo the ground, having no crop upon it,_ 

 " is again plowed for corn : and this is the conftant round which 

 •* the lands are employed in, .fey the better fort of farmers i for I 



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