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fair, though considerably injured by being thrown up by the 

 frost in March, (bat pressed in immediately with a roller.) I 

 reckon this the most profitable crop I ever raised with the same 

 outlay. Equally sure from this seed as rye or corn. On the 

 29th of Aug. last, I sowed three bushels on the inverted sod, 

 with a top dressing of compost and grass seed, which now look 

 well. I intend to sow my corn and potato ground, as soon as 

 I can clear it, with this wheat in preference to spring grain. I 

 get better grass when sown in autumn (nature's time) and after 



wheat. 



As to my bromus grass, some fears and prejudice have been 

 expressed concerning it, and the circulation has been limited by 

 the pledge I have taken of purchasers, not to dispose of any of 

 the seed had of me, or raised from it. I have preferred to make 

 the fullest experiment on my own soil and in various times of 

 sowing, and for different purposes. I can now say, as far as I 

 can learn from others and my own use of it, it proves to be a 

 valuable accession to our cultivated grasses. As a fertilizer 

 being richer feed, and growing quicker for pasture than any 

 other, on land capable of being ploughed. As adapted to sum- 

 mer soiling from its heavy growth, and for hay, especially 

 when sowed with red clover, which is held up by its elasticity 

 and cannot lodge so as to be slippery or bad to mow ; and rank 

 as it grows, cattle, horses, and sheep prefer it to any other, green 

 or dry. Though it likes a rich moist soil, and a top dressing 

 of plaster and ashes, as well as clover, it will come up and 

 resist the drought on gravelly pine plain, covering the ground, 

 retaining the dew, and protecting finer grasses until they get 

 rooted and form a green sward. 



Besides a large quantity for hay and pasture, I sowed six 

 acres of bromus last autumn, and allowed it to ripen, which is 

 now secure in sheaf for seed. I might as well have taken 120 

 bushels of wheat from the same soil, and should have done so, 

 but for a wish to meet the demands for its extended circulation, 

 which no other can do at present. My wish is to have every 

 bushel I can spare, taken without restriction, and sown before 

 the ground closes again, and the advantage of this prolific 

 grass, be shared by every applicant. If sowing bromus grass 



