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with TEMPORARY LEY are much more fuit- 

 able to its nature. 



The MANAGEMENT OF GRASSLAND in th'lS 



country now requires to be delineated. 



The OBJECTS are bay and pajluragc ; each 

 of which will require to be feparately confi- 

 dered. But there are fome GENERAL MAT- 

 TERS which are common to them both, and 

 demand a previous confederation. Thefe are, 

 j. Draining, 4- Weeding, 



2. Clearing, 5- Manuring. 



3. Drefling. 



i, 2. DRAINING, CLEARING. Thefe two 

 operations have been already fpoken of fuffi- 

 ciently under the general management of 

 ARABLE LAND, excepting fo far as relates to 

 clearing away ant-hills. 



Here, as in moft places, this operation is 



too much neglected. When praftifed, the 



hills are either taken off with a paring-fpade, 



or perhaps a plow, level with the furrounding 



fward, and carted into hollows, &c. fow- 



ing the hill (leads with hay-feeds ; or, in one 



inftance, I faw the cap of the hill firft taken 



off thin, and when the body of the hill was 



removed, the cap was laid upon the hillftead. 



But 



