J54 NATURAL GRASSES, 



tp me at prefent as the bed time forfli 

 UP mowing-grounds and opening paftures. 



2. STOCKING PASTURES. Thtjpea'es and 

 the quantity require to be fepajately conli- 

 dered. 



No fettled rules with refpect to the mixture 

 of fpecies are here obferved. It is generally 

 underftood that horfes and cattle intermixed 

 will eat grafs cleaner than either fpecies will 

 alone ; not To much from their feparately af- 

 fecting dipcrent graiTes, as from the circum- 

 ftance of both fpecies diiliking to feed near 

 their own dung. 



Horfes, it is true, appear partial to parti- 

 pular patches of f.vard ; bur, on clofe cxami- 

 WAtipn, I have never been able todifcover any, 

 peculiarity in thejW/or the herbage of thefe 

 barely-eaten fpots j which are, \ apprehend, 

 t-aten to the quick accidentally, and are after- 

 wards kept down through their peculiar fweet- 

 nefsi owing to the Peculiar (horttiefs of the 

 herbage. Hares and rabbits in the neigh- 

 bourhood of kept covers, keep down patches 

 of barley or other corn in a fimilar manner, 

 and through iimilar motives. 



Beiidcs this unfair manner of feeding, the 

 . i-j difli^cd in paihires^ on account of" 



the 



