PRACTICAL AGRICULTURE. 23 



MANAGEMENT OF GRASS LANDS. 



FORAGE. 



The clovers and similar leguminous plants mixed 

 with grasses, may be applied alike to forage and to her- 

 bage. 



There is no period in the growth of these plants, at 

 which they will afford so early and rich an herbage, as 

 when they are one-year old grass. 



In stacking, some recommend the strewing of salt upon 

 the hay, as the building of the stack proceeds. 



The grasses to be mown are cut down when the 

 greater number of them have come into flower. 



PASTURAGE. 



A primary improvement of w^hich lands unsuited to 

 cultivation are susceptible, is freeing them from stagnant 

 water. 



A rule of the farm is to put sheep on finer and shor- 

 ter grasses in preference to cattle and horses, and cattle 

 and horses upon the larger and ranker pastures. 



The chief injury which land when left long in grass 

 is apt to sustain, is the decay of ics herbage by the 

 springing up of inferior plants. The most common of 

 these are the Miisci, Mosses. 



The best method of destroying this class of plants is 

 by draining and Uming. 



