422 On Grass Land. 



ready. 1 1 is therefore well worth from 30s. to 40s. per acre 

 at that period of the year, and in severe and backward sea- 

 sons, it must prove of still higher value ( 343 ). 



7. Fogging Grass Lands. 



In the original Report of Cardiganshire, a practice is re- 

 commended, to which the i^vm fogging is applied. Under 

 that system, fields in pasture are shut up early in May, and 

 continued in that state till November or December, when 

 the farmer's stock is turned in, and continues to pasture, till 

 the May succeeding ( 344 ). Such management, however, can 

 only be advisable on a soil of the driest nature, which will 

 not be injured by poaching in the wettest seasons. 



8. Transplanting Turf. 



This is a new practice in agriculture, originally invented 

 by Mr Whitworth, in Lincolnshire ( 345 ), but first carried to 

 a considerable extent, by Mr Bloomfield of Warham, in 

 Norfolk, and thence it has spread to other districts. By 

 this process, a piece of good, clean, rich old turf, which 

 ought principally to consist of fibrous rooted plants, is cut 

 into small pieces, of about three inches square, and placed, 

 about six inches apart, on the surface of ground prepared 

 for that purpose. In this way, one acre of turf ( 346 ), will 

 plant nine acres of arable land. The pieces of flag should 

 be carefully placed, with the grass side uppermost, and the 

 plants pressed well into the ground. No more turf should 

 be cut, carried, and spread in any one day, than is likely to 

 be planted before night. If the transplanted turf is found 

 deficient in any particular species of favourite plants, as 

 white clover, permanent red clover, &c. the seeds of those 

 plants, should be sown upon the young pasture in April. 

 When the ground is in proper temper, (between wet and 

 dry), the pasture should be frequently well pressed down by 

 heavy rollers, which will cause the plants to extend them- 

 selves along the ground, rather than rise into tufts, which 

 otherwise they would be apt to do. No stock should be 

 permitted to feed upon the transplanted pasture, in the first 

 spring or summer, nor until the grasses have perfected and 

 shed their seeds. Indeed the pasturing should be very mo- 

 derate, until the mother grass-plants, and their young pro- 

 geny, have united, and formed a compact turf. The expense 

 of this operation is about L.2, 10s. per statute acre, without 



