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will deteriorate, till the crop will' not pay the laboul 

 of gathering it. Those, therefore, who will have 

 good, permanent meadows, must, once at least in 

 four years, give it a bountiful top-dressing of dung. 



[We add here the following concise but valuable 

 report made to the Agricultural Society of this state, 

 on grasses and grass-lands, by L. E. ALLEN, Esq., of 

 Buffalo, merely remarking that we fully concur in' 

 the opinion expressed, that the quantity of grass- 

 seeds sown is in most cases far too limited.] 



REPORT ON GRASSES AND GRASS-LANDS. 



The committee on laying down grass-lands, &c., 

 report : 



In the consideration of this subject, but two dis- 

 tinct propositions submit themselves to the reflec- 

 tion of the committee ; and, first : our soils in the 

 Northern states may be ranged, for the purpose of 

 this report, into two classes : the tenacious, whether 

 clayey, loamy, or vegetable ; and the silicious 01 

 sandy. These are sufficiently well known to every 

 farmer without analyzation. The first division of 

 these soils may be termed " natural grass-lands ;" 

 the second requires the grasses to be frequently cul- 

 tivated by rotation with other crops, and, for the 

 present purpose, may be termed " artificial" soils for 

 grasses. 



In the management of the first, the committee feel 

 warranted in the assertion (and for the tnith of this 

 they appeal to the innumerable instances in all parts 

 of the Northern states, where large and productive 

 tracts of meadow and pastures have been in uninter- 

 rupted grass-culture for more than half a century), 

 that, so far as has yet been tried, lands may be kept 

 in grass for such a length of time as " the mem- 

 ory of man runneth not to the contrary." It is true 

 that there so ; ls will not, more than others, bear con- 



