AUGUST. 4()5 



Seeds. Sul-stiittles. 



Ray, 1 peck. 



Yarrow, 1 bush. Ray, 1 peck; Rib. 4lb. 



Chalk. 



Biirnet, lOlb. 



Trefoil, 5lb., 



White clover, .. .'. 5lb. 



Yarrow, .... 1 bush. Ray, 1 bush. 



Peat. 



White clover, lOlb. 



Dog's-tail, lOlb. York white, 6 pecks. 



Ray, 1 peck. 



Fox-tail, 2 do. Rib, 5lb. 



Fescue, 2 do. Cow-grass, 4lb. 



Timothy, 1 do. 



But here I must observe generally, tbat if the 

 land thus laid to grass, be intended for sheep, 

 it is not an object of very great consequence 

 to sow only the finer grasses; as close feeding, 

 after the first year, will make any grass named 

 in these lists fine, and sweet, and productive ; 

 but this effect depends altogether on its being con- 

 stantly fed close ; that is, all seed stems being pre- 

 vented from rising. Every good farmer is sensible 

 of the necessity of this with ray-grass; but most 

 unaccountably does not extend -a similar concern to 

 other grasses. I have laid down above 20O acres 

 chiefly for sheep; and I have stocked the fields so 

 early in spring, and so thickly, as just to keep down 

 the seed stems: the cock's-foot, oat-grass, arid 



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