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made so. Should it be desired to sow a field that has been 

 greatly exhausted, a plan pursued in England is com- 

 mended. The fall previous to sowing, the field is put in 

 turnips. During the winter, by means of hurdles, a flock 

 of sheep is confined to a portion of the field, and they are 

 not allowed to leave until every vestige of the turnips is 

 exhausted. By this time the ground will be black with 

 their droppings. In this manner the whole field, acre by 

 acre, is gone over and the ground has a fine covering of ma- 

 nure. We will suppose this consumes the winter. In the 

 spring break up, or to break up just as soon as the sheep 

 are removed is better, and sow with peas. When this crop 

 is in full bearing let on both hogs and sheep, and it will 

 amply repay all its preparation by the manner in which the 

 stock will thrive, and they will again bestow on it a cover- 

 ing of fine manure. Now the ground is well manured and 

 fully capable of giving, in return for the care bestowed, a 

 bountiful crop the first year. Of course it must be again 

 broken and pulverized as before mentioned. This not only 

 pays better than letting it lie in fallow, but it keeps down 

 weeds. When ground is fallowed, there will be generally 

 an interval of neglect, and the weeds, ever watchful for a 

 chance, will spring up, mature their seeds and sow them, to 

 the trouble and vexation of the farmer afterward. 



SELECTION OF SUITABLE SEEDS AND BEST METHOD OF 

 MIXING THEM. 



Whatever the character of the soil to be converted into 

 a meadow, a suitable grass will be found in our list. There 

 are grasses for rocky land, sandy land, bottom land, upland, 

 or calcareous land, and we cannot do better than to refer 

 the reader to the large list from which to select, as the kind 

 of land to which they are adapted is clearly shown in each 

 descriptive article. 



It is well known to every farmer that some grasses will 

 not thrive on certain characters of soil. What grasses to 



