S42 On Soiling Cattle, 



fall ; it starts instantly after the scythe with almost in- 

 credible vigour, neither waiting the healing of its 

 ivounds or fresh shoots from its roots. 



Timothy appears to suit the sellers of hay better than 

 those who feed all their hay and grass on their farms ; 

 after the first cut but little is to be expected from it, 

 unless growing in rich moist bottoms, yet with the ad- 

 dition of this grass, cattle may be longer kept on the 

 first crop, and perhaps earlier fatted for market, and I 

 have observed none that they eat more freely or on 

 which they thrive faster. 



The green grass on this place has grown after clover 

 which had run out, and as it has not been in my power to 

 enrich those grounds until this fall, consequently the 

 crops have been light ; but I have observed on spots 

 accidentally enriched, that the vegetation has been quick 

 and luxuriant ; whether it will require too much ma- 

 nure to bring the rest up to this standard, and to keep 

 it so, is to nie entirely unknown, but I find it forms a, 

 close pile, springs early, arrives quickly to perfection, 

 and stands the nipping frosts of winter perhaps better 

 than any grass which grows on this place in sufficient 

 quantities to excite attention ; and notv/ithstanding the 

 ground was thin and the first crop cut late, it has gene- 

 rally afforded a tolerable third cut, the greater part of 

 which has been fed green to the horses and cattle in the 

 yards. The mowing commenced the 13th of Novem- 

 ber and continued until the third of December, when a 

 fall of snow put a stop to the scythe, and it is likely to 

 all further progress in this business, as the grass which 

 is now left would, under the most favourable circum- 



