MAY. 



mowing grounds ? Mr. Goring here offers a valu- 

 able remark : 



" I do not even admit that grass-land should be 

 mown and fed alternately : it is certainly the way 

 to go on the longer without manure, and as cer- 

 tainly the way to ruin (pari passu) both fields in the 

 end. In order to maintain its proper quantity of 

 stock (we used to say) the land must be used to it ; 

 the more it keeps, the more it will keep ; four this 

 year, five the next : give it a little manure, more 

 stock will follow, and so on till it has attained its 

 ne plus ultra, if that point be to be attained. Land 

 that has been used to the scythe will not (cccteris 

 paribus) keep so much stock and so well as an old 

 pasture, though it may have been better manured ; 

 neither will old pasture produce so much hay as the 

 other ; each will grow as it has been accustomed to 

 grow ; but the old pasture has an inherent sweet- 

 ness in it, as well as virtue, which is hardly to be 

 seen upon the ground, but is to be felt upon the 

 rumps and sides of the ox : or to be discerned in 

 the number of sheep which it maintains." 



FIRST YEAR'S MANAGEMENT OF NEW LAYS. 



In this point there is a great difference of opinion. 

 Some have contended that the new lay should be 

 pastured by sheep ; others by cattle ; others mown 

 for hay ; others seeded. 



In the North Riding, the best farmers feed their 

 new lays with sheep the two first years. 



If ray-grass and white clover be meant to remain 



some 



