HOW TO GHOW GOOD GRASSES. 



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only a part of a meadow can be irrigated, good 

 accrues to the whole, as in depasturing the whole is 

 ranged over by our cattle and sheep. 

 We here give the following 



TABLE OF CHANGES IN GRASSES AND OTHER PLANTS UNDER 

 IRRIGATION. 



The general conclusions from this table are, that 

 large and innutritious herbage is, for the most part, 

 destroyed by irrigation, and its place is supplied by 

 grasses; hence, then, the increased value conferred 

 by the regulated action of water is due to an increase 

 in quantity and quality of the grasses, added to a 

 much more certain, as well as early, production of 

 these. Of course the districts best adapted to irri- 



