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other grass; I think they will find it about as 

 hard, and, in nourishing properties, about on a 

 par with the wicker of which a clothes-basket 

 is made, and about as easy of digestion. What 

 set-off there is against what I must consider as 

 tolerably forcible objections, I never yet found out. 

 Hay should, in a general way, grow on uplands, 

 and I allow, bent or bennets, as they are some- 

 times called, generally do grow there, because in 

 very poor uplands they are the only thing that 

 will. But " good upland hay" speaks for itself; 

 it thould come from good upland, not from sterile, 

 dry hills, where little but this bent will grow. 



Long tangled grass (unless it is artificial grass) 

 is as bad as the dry bent, but, from another 

 cause, it is generally more or less sour, con- 

 sequently flatulent and not nutritious. This 

 grows on low swampy soil, and is only fit for 

 cows, and not the best sort for them. Real good 

 hay should (like that delightful adjunct to a 

 dinner-table, a really good salad) consist of 

 variety, all sweet and nutritious. Who would 

 touch a salad consisting of only the long green 

 lettuce ? Parmentier's salad vinegar, with Kitch- 

 ener's double relish added to its other sauce in- 

 gredients, could not make it tolerable. 



It is quite a mistake that all soft hay is bad for 

 horses. Aftermath, which is soft, of course, is 

 objectionable, because the nourishment of the land 

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