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fault of the land, as of the occupier of It ; 

 for many farmers, too attentive to qiian- 

 tity, suffer this quick-growing grass to re- 

 main uncut till it will , produce nearly 

 three tons to an acre ; and then it naturally 

 will become long, coarse, and drj^ and 

 little better than straw. But those farmers 

 ■who are wise enough to cut their grass in 

 the month of June, and who have been 

 fortunate enough to have used muddy- 

 water in the winter, will fmd their hay 

 very little inferior in quality to the best 

 upland hay. The couch-grass and the 

 meadow fox-tail are, I must grant, very 

 prevalent grasses m a watered-meadow, 

 and their herbage is rather coarse and 

 dry ; but the poa trivialh, or rough-stalked 

 meadow-grass, is, in general, still more 

 prevailing than either of the above, and 

 makes ample amends for their degree of 

 coarseness. 



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