150 NATURAL GRASSES. 12. 



thereby in the inftant encumbering the fur- 

 face, and in the confequence increaiing their 

 fpecies ; and of courfe leffening the proportion 



Of NUTRITIOUS HERBAGE. 



Even fuppofing the fward to be perfectly 

 free from weeds and coarfe graffes, in is bad 

 management to fuffer flock (STORE-STOCK) to 

 be turned upon a full bite. They cannot, 

 if duly flocked, keep the whole of it under. 

 Much of it will inevitably run up to feed, 

 fprming tufts and uneaten patches, which (if 

 not removed with the fithe) remain during 

 the fummer as ufelefs to the grazier, as if 

 they were not included within the limits of 

 his paftures. They are fo much wajte ground* 

 The quantity of grazing furface, or, in other 

 words, the fize qf the pafture, is lefTencd in 

 proportion to the quantity of ft ale herbage. 



On the contrary, if flock be admitted into 

 paftures while the early weeds are yet in a 

 tender Jlate, and before the furface be covered 

 with bet^ir /herbage 9 every weed will be crop- 

 ped, and every part be equally eaten. Even 

 fujbes when they firfl ihoot are eaten freely 

 by cattle and horfes ; efpecially the latter. 

 The cowparjntp, ragwort, and other grofs 



early 



