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unaccountably does not extend a similar concern to 

 other grasses. I have laid down above 2OO acres 

 chiefly for sheep ; and I have stocked the fields so 

 early in spring, and so thickly, as just to keep 

 down the seed stems : the cock j s-foot, oat-grass, 

 and Yorkshire white, with this management, have 

 proved sweet feeding grasses, not at all rejected, 

 even in fields where the flock had a choice. 



Soichig. The even distribution of the seeds 

 being of much importance, a calm day should be 

 chosen for the sowing, and particular attention 

 given to prevent the seedsmen mixing too many 

 together : let the farmer remember, that the ex- 

 pence of going often over the ground, is nothing 

 on comparison with the benefit of having each sort % 

 equally distributed. 



Successive management. In this respect, no 

 other attention is necessary than to keep every 

 sort of stock out of the field most assiduously 

 through all the following autumn and winter. 

 Some writers direct manuring ; but this should 

 have been done previously to sowing the winter 

 if done at all. After sowing, none is admis- 

 sible but such dressings as may be sown by hand. 

 CONVERSION OF POOH LAYS. 



There are, on many farms, tracts of barren lays, 

 from moss, poverty, neglect, and bad herbage, 

 upon which a very great improvement may be 

 made by a single ploughing in August. For this 

 purpose, a strong four-horse plough must be used 

 with a skim-coulter ; then go over it twice in diffe- 

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