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beef and mutton, and can be depended upon by the 

 farmer with greater certainty than arable lands, as being 

 less affected by the vicissitudes of season. They have 

 not generally deteriorated in value of late years, except 

 when occupied for dairy purposes. There are no lands, 

 however, which require in their valuation the exercise of 

 a sounder judgment, combined with local experience and / 

 observation, than these ; as they are known frequently to 

 possess extraordinary qualities even on a comparatively 

 shallow soil, and to be less valuable where there was 

 greater depth and more seeming energy in the soil. 

 SECT. 3. MEDIUM GRASS. 



M. G. 1. Excellent for feeding young cattle, but not 

 to be depended upon for producing good 

 beef or mutton ; well fenced, watered, 

 and sheltered, accessible by good roads ; 

 coarse meadow. 

 M. G. 2. Feeding lands, not so luxuriant as the 



former. 

 M. G. 3. Feeding lands, badly drained, or fenced, 



with some waste, grass indifferent. 

 There are many tracts of rich natural pasture which 

 might be placed in either of these qualities of medium 

 grass. 



SECT. 4. INFERIOR GRASS. 



The three foregoing classes, though more profitable in 

 pasture, have all been cultivated at some period, and are 

 capable, if need be, of cultivation ; but this class embraces 

 land which is still in a state of nature, and has never been 

 subjected to tillage 



I. G. 1. Heavy clay land, badly drained, with short 

 and scanty herbage soon eaten down ; 

 natural pasture close, but not luxuriant ; 

 capable of being cultivated, convenient, 

 and sheltered. 



I. G. 2. Natural pasture, elevated, not so conve- 

 nient, spouty, reclaimable, but at con- 

 siderable expense ; stony, shrubby, wet. 



