770 MASS. BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



rolled. From land so treated, I cut the last season three tons 

 of hay to the acre." 



The viewing committee on farms in Norfolk County, in their 

 report for 1844, say: — " The farm of Cheever Newhall, in Dor- 

 chester, Mass, furnishes one of the best examples of productive 

 husbandry we have anywhere met with." And upon the sub- 

 ject of sowing grass seed, say : " Mr. Newhall decidedly prefers 

 the fall, for sowing grass seed ; thinks August too early for his 

 farm, but has been very successful in late sowing; showed a 

 beautiful piece of sward sowed down on the 7th of October, 

 1843." 



The editors of the Albany Cultivator, in answer to an in- 

 quirer in 1845, say : " We should prefer the latter part of 

 August for sowing grass seed." 



In 1847, Frederick Holbrook, of Brattleborough, Vt., in a 

 communication to the Cultivator, on the subject of seeding 

 grass lands, says : " A new practise has obtained among some 

 farmers in this section of seeding down to grass upon the green 

 sward furrow, in the latter part of August or the first of Sep- 

 tember. When a piece of land becomes ' bound out,' as the 

 phrase is, or ceases to yield a good swarth, it is carefully and 

 nicely turned over by the plough at this season and rolled 

 down. Fifteen to twenty loads of compost are theij spread to 

 the acre and harrowed both ways of the furrow ; the grass seed 

 is then sowed and covered with a brush harrow. And among 

 other advantages derived from this process, says : " The land 

 may be thus kept highly productice in grass with less manure 

 than by the system of ploughing and planting one or two years 

 and then seeding with a grain crop." 



And the same writer, after visiting the farm of Clark Rice, 

 Esq., in Dummerston, Vt., in 1848, says: "Mr. Rice has sev- 

 eral acres of grass land, too moist to plough -and cultivate in 

 the spring, but obtains fine crops of hay from this land by 

 ploughing it in August, when a light dressing of compost is 

 spread on top of the furrows and harrowed in. The land is 

 then seeded down to grass again, without sowing grain ] and 

 this process is repeated as often as the more valuable grasses 

 have been supplanted by wild grass." 



Mr. Levi Durand, of Derby, Conn., in a very elaborate article 

 communicated to the Cultivator in 1849, on seeding grass 



