QUARTERLY JOURNAL. 



grass, or June grass, shoots up through the old grass as through a 

 brush heap, in lieu of the good burthen of the year before, 



I will here subjoin some general directions for the management 

 of meadow land so as to secure a succession of clover, and conse 

 quently maintain the fertility of the soil. 



1st. Always let the rowen clover go to seed. 



2d. Always mow early, so that, if the season be dry, the clovei 

 may have a chance to get to seed. The hay will also weigh more 

 and be of better quality. 



3d. If the season be. favorable and the second growth large 

 turn in upon it as soon as the clover seed begins to shed, in ordei- 

 that it may be sufficiently fed off and trampled down before winter 

 otherwise mow it the second time after sufficient seed has shed up- 

 on the ground. 



4th. If the after-growth be light, so as if left upon the land,il 

 will not endanger the next crop by shade and mice, do not pastuFK 

 it at all. 



Such treatment of meadow land is generous and good, and thaa 

 generosity will be returned. It does not admit of turning catth 

 upon meadows as soon as they are mowed, to bite the grass dowr 

 to the roots, killing some kinds and injuring others. Timcth] 

 grass, for instance, generally requires the balance of the scasoi 

 after mowing, in which to recruit, so as to put forth its best elTort 

 the spring following. 



The more kinds of grass there are growing on the same ground 

 the greater the weight produced, and the thicker the growth 

 Each kind is supposed to require some specific food, not appro 

 priated by the others, therefore they can feed together withou 

 robbing each other, and therefore it is that old meadows can b( 

 made to produce much more weight of grass than those newl) 

 seeded. 



White clover is an important grass on flourishing old meadows 

 It grows very thick at the bottom of the other grass, although ir 

 a good season it will grow to the height of from twelve to sixteer 

 inches. It should be cut early or it will diminish fast, and in t 

 dry season entirely disappear. 



Red clover on old meadow will grow well when the ground is 

 so wet as to hold water on its surface for two or three months in 

 the spring. I have seen it in low spots completely covered foi 



