96 CULTIVATED GRASSES. n. 



has been duly cleaned by a whole year's fal- 

 low. Not, however, by fowing it with foul 

 feeds, or an improper affortment ; but 

 (where due confidence cannot be placed in 

 the tenant) with clean feeds furnilhed by the 

 landlord at the tenant's expence. 



The after-management calls equally aloud 

 for .the landlord's attention. If he volunta- 

 rily fuffer it to be eaten with fheep, or to be 

 poached with other flock, the firft winter ; if 

 he fuffer the tender bottom grafles to be 

 fmothcred in their infant ftate by the taller 

 herbage running up for hay, or the foil to be 

 exhaufted by carrying off a crop during the 

 firft three years ; or if he permit it, under or- 

 dinary circumftances, to be afterwards mown 

 (except fwceping off the weeds and broken 

 grufs after Midfummer) oftener than every 

 fecond year ; he is doing injuflice to him- 

 felf and the community. 



It muft be underftood, however, that the 

 management here recommended is applicable 

 only to perennial lays of twenty, fifty, or a 

 greater number of years: not to temporary 

 leys of one, two, or even five cr fix years. 

 In this cafe, herbage becomes an ARABLE 



CROP, 



