AGRICULTURE WITH CHEMISTRY. 



entirely, to be prevented by due attention to the follow- 

 ing directions : 



To keeping the water in the ditches at a proper level : 







To stocking the ground with a due proportion of neat 

 cattle, sheep, and horses ; as the one animal will eat the 

 grass which springs up from the dung of the other, 

 and which otherwise would produce tufts of coarse 

 grass : 



To folding of cattle on different parts of each field : 

 To using of heavy rollers : 



To top-dressings of alkaline salts, and other saline 

 substances ; and also to top-dressings of lime, either by 

 itself, or when mixed with peat or fen mould. 



The pasture should always be eaten quite close before 

 winter, excepting such portions of it as are intended for 

 winter food, which likewise should be eaten close off, 

 before the spring vegetation commences: after which 



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