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1. Dig a small plat, and clear ofFall weeds. Rake 

 and level the surface, and thereon lay the joints, cut so 

 as to have an inch or more of the string, on each side ; 

 or the runners may be laid or stretched lengthwise, in 

 rows, nine or twelve inches apart, to admit the hoe or 

 hand-weeding. 



2. Cover them with mould, or compost, thinly ; 

 merely to keep them from being blown off, and to set 

 the joints, so as to ensure their striking root. 



3. Weed and clean them when requisite. Next sea- 

 son, they will conquer, with very little aid, all other 

 vegetation. The later the crop, of any year, is cut, the 

 better. The strings or runners are the objects ; and 

 not what is commonly preferred in hay. The former 

 in winter remain highly succulent ; and can be used 

 to as great a degree of profit, as green grass in sum- 

 mer. They promote milk in cows, become healthy food 

 for sheep ; — ewes and lambs particularly ; and are pre- 

 ventives of many diseases ; by supplying succulent 

 fodder in winter or spring, when no other is to be ob- 

 tained. The seed of the panicles will grow ; but the 

 progress is more tedious. The culms* and leaves are 

 of little advantage ; though they may serve for fodder. 



The enemies of this grass have confounded it with 

 quicks conchy or knot grass, than which nothing is more 

 erroneous; as Dr. iiLic/zardswz has clearly shewn. The 

 abundance it affords for winter consumption, doubly 

 compensates for exclusion of grazing, which the growtlx 

 of the runners indispensably requires. 



* The cnlniB are upright stalks, supporting): the fmnlcla^ or seed 

 spikes. 



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