92 CULTIVATED GRASSES, n. 



an unufual length of time; and when fully 

 dry falls into a frnall compafs ; or is broken 

 into fragments, and left behind in the field. 

 An advantage of this grafs is, that its feeds 

 may be eafily procured in an unadulterated 

 {late. A fmall proportion of it may be eli- 

 gible : it has now flood the tell of twenty 

 years eflablifhed practice, and feems to be 

 ftill in good eflimation ; even among obfer- 

 vant htifbandmen. 



THE MIXTURE OF SEEDS for a perennial 

 ley varies in this Piflrict with the fpirit and 

 judgement of the occupier. Some make 

 choice of the cheapeft, and imagine a fmall 

 quantity to be fufficient ; while others choofe 

 thofe which are moft fuitable to their refpec- 

 vive foils, and think they cannot throw on too 

 many. 



The moil promiiing young perennial ley 

 which I have feen in the Vale, and which is 

 in the occupation of one of the largefl and 

 beft farmers in it, was feeded with the fol^ 

 lowing iecds and proportions an acre : name- 

 ly, fourteen pounds of WHITE CLOVER; and 

 fourteen pounds of RED CLOVER, TREFOIL, 



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