HOW TO GROW GOOD GRASSES. 101 



haymaking. Do not ripen the grasses too much 

 before cutting. Don't trust to grazing for restoring 

 the phosphates and other ingredients of the hay, but 

 bring them in the shape of manure. 



Use heavy rollers in spring to smooth and consoli- 

 date the soil ; replant the roots thrown out by worms ; 

 mat the turf more thoroughly together ; and crush 

 larger but useless plants. 



There is, then, less difference between the cultiva- 

 tion of pasture and of arable land than would at first 

 be thought. 



Drainage, acts of husbandry, amelioration of soil 

 by rubbish of all kinds where too tenacious, manuring 

 them by farmyard dung, or, failing this, such arti- 

 ficial manures as bones, superphosphates, guano, 

 nitrates, soot, &c, — these are the sheet anchors in the 

 improvement of our pastures; and by these we 

 should realize the hope of making two blades of good 

 grass grow where one did before. 



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