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SECTION III. Of the grasses, and other plants, which are 

 natural to dry, sandy, and elevated soils ; of 

 some other plants not belonging to the natural 

 family of grasses, but which are found in dry or 

 upland pastures ; of the improvement of downs 

 and of light sandy soils; a combination of seve- 

 ral different grasses and other plants recom- 

 mended for improving the pasture on soils of 

 the nature now mentioned - - 256 339 



IV. Of the grasses which naturally grow in moist 

 soils, or in bogs, lands that are periodically over- 

 flown, and irrigated meadows ; of the difference 

 of quality in water-meadow hay, and in hay made 

 from rich old pasture land ; of the effects of an 

 excess of manure to grasses, as regards the nutri- 

 tive powers of the herbage produced under such 

 circumstances - - 340386 



V. Of the different grasses, and other plants, 

 adapted for the alternate husbandry ; impo- 

 verishing effects of plants to soils ; of the causes 

 which render some plants unfit to succeed other 

 plants in alternate cropping - - 387 414 



APPENDIX I. Of the general impoverishing effects of plants 

 to soils ; of the mode of converting tillage land 

 to permanent pasture, by the process called trans- 

 planting turf; summary of the grasses adapted 

 for the alternate husbandry - - 415 422 



II. Of the grasses which afford the best culms for 

 the manufacture of straw bonnets, in imitation 

 of the celebrated Leghorn manufacture - 422428 



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