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ought to be broken fufficiently early to be 

 eaten, without wafte, before winter fet in ; 

 and the lateft, that is to fay, the fhorteft, 

 ihould be fhut up for fpring-feed. If 

 aftergrafs be too long and groffy it is apt 

 to lodge, and rot upon the ground in winter. 

 Therefore on rich land it ought to be more 

 or lefs fed before Michaelmas; and then, of 

 a due length, be ihut up for the winter. 



II. PASTURES. The management of paf- 

 ture-grounds requires to be fubdivided into 



1. Spring Management. 



2. Stocking. 



3. Summer Management. 



j. SPRING MANAGEMENT. In the ordinary- 

 practice of the DiftricT: paftures are fhut up 

 in winter, or early in the fpring, and freed 

 from ftock until Old Mayday. 



This appears to me to be bad manage- 

 ment. At Old Mayday, in a common year, 

 and on an ordinary foil, there is a fufticient 

 bite over every part of the fur face. Cattle of 

 courfe choofe the better herbage. They have 

 no inducement to crop the weeds and coarfer 

 grafts, which they fuffer to run up to feed, 

 L 3 thereby 



