i& NAT'URAL GRASSES. u, 



patches j while fheep run over and nibble 

 out the choiceft'morfels of the entire piece. 

 They are generally kept alone, except on 

 commons, and are on this fide of the Vale 

 properly confined to the uplands, the molt 

 natural pafture of Iheep. 



With regard to the aggregate QUANTITY 



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OF STOCK fuitable to a given piece of ground, 

 hufbandmen here, as in other places, differ in 

 their opinions. Extremes are mofdy inju- 

 dicious. The impropriety of flocking too 

 thin has already been {hewn ; but laying on 

 flock too thick is a ftill greater impropriety. 

 Bioken grais may be mown for hay ; but the 

 evils of over- {locking are not eafily repaired ; 

 {lock once checked do not readily regain a 

 thriving habit. I have known (not in this 

 Diftrict) the entire produce of the land 



n away by over (locking : it is an error 

 which novitial farmers too frequently fall 

 into. The middle way ought to be atten- 

 tively fought after. Nothing but experience 

 on the given ground can point it out. In ob- 

 g this experience it is always prudent to 

 begin on the fafe fide ; or, in other words, to. 



;itock rather than overilockthe firil year. 



