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rent directions with the scarifier, so as not to dis- 

 turb the flag ; harrow it once, and immediately 

 sow a quarter of a peck of cole-seed, two bushels 

 of cock's-foot, and one bushel of Yorkshire white 

 per acre, adding some of whatever seeds may be 

 procured at the moment cheaply. Leave it unfed 

 and untouched till the March following, in which 

 month, and through April, load it well with sheep ; 

 the use will then be very great ; keep sheep feed- 

 ing it heavily through the year ; the cole will be 

 killed, and you will have a pasture worth treble 

 what it was before. The expence is small, and 

 the improvement rapid. 



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The time for shutting up after-grass for use the 

 following winter and spring, will depend on the 

 richness of the soil : direclly from the scythe is 

 the proper period for lands of moderate fertility, 

 that let from 12s. to 25s. an acre; but, in fields 

 of greater richness, from 25s. to 35s. August is a 

 better month, feeding till then quite bare : and, on 

 still richer lands, September may do. On the fine 

 salt-marshes of Lincolnshire there is such a spring 

 all winter, that two sheep an acre are fed without 

 any previous exclusion. This husbandry cannot 

 have too much attention, for it is by far the most 

 certain dependence a man can hive for his flock at 

 the most pinching period of the whole year. 

 Lands fed in the spring may be kept equally with 

 those mown. 



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