,AYING DOWN' FOK G 



do on those which are very indifferent. The great 

 use of it is for spring feed for sheep. If left of a. 

 proper height in the autumn, it will improve 

 through the winter, notwithstanding frost, and be 

 ready early in the spring. This is a great excel- 

 lency, in which it is rivalled by no other grass. 

 Burnet does well mixed with ray -grass or cocks- 

 foot : about three pecks of burnet, and one bushel 

 of ray-grass, or cocksfoot, to the acre. 

 SOW CHICORY. 



This plant (most valuable for many purposes) 

 may be sown with any sort of spring corn all 

 through this month. It may be put in either 

 broad-cast, sowing 12lb. of seed per acre, or 

 drilled at a foot distance, with 9 or lOlb. over 

 broad-cast, or drilled corn. 



LAYING DOWN FOR GRASS. 



Laying arable land down to permanent grass, is 

 a work very rarely thought of by tenants. I have 

 known it sometimes done on a piece near a farm- 

 yard, for convenience, but not often. As this work 

 is designed equally for the nsr of both landlords 

 and tenants, it is necessary to mention all the prac- 

 tices commonly pursued by either. I treat of the 

 preparation for it under this month, because the 

 spring is, with many, the favourite season for that 

 operation ; but, as I greatly prefer an August sow- 

 ing of grass-seeds for this purpose, I shall be brief 

 at present, reserving my principal observations for 

 that month. When sown witli spring corn, it 



should be with buck-wheat, barley, or oats. 





Seeds 

 take 



