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this instance also the routine previously advised is apphcable. 

 Eigorous harrowing in autumn, a heavy top-dressing during 

 winter, and the sowing of suitable strong-growing seeds in early 

 spring, are the means by which the most profitable results can 

 be ensured. I know plenty of cases where this rough-and- 

 ready treatment has been followed by a fairly paying plant. 

 Especially may improving crops be anticipated when the land is 

 continuously manured, or where the cattle which feed them off 

 are liberally assisted with artificials. 



I have tried the experiment of feeding a second crop of 

 clover with sheep eating cake, and sown grass seeds in front for 

 the sheep to tread in as they fed the crop. This was attended 

 with a satisfactory result. 



Other instances of a similar character might be cited, but as 

 they only need some modification of the metliod already explained, 

 it may be enough to say that I have known tolerably successful 

 pastures to be formed from an old Sainfoin ley, a worn-out 

 Lucerne plant, a three or four years' Eye Grass ley, and even 

 from clean Barley and Oat stubbles, without ploughing or using 

 any other implement than the harrow, the seed-barrow, and the 

 roller. 



