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appear like old pasture land. It cannot be expected that 

 landlords should permit fine, old f rich, strong land pastures 

 to be ploughed up, but as the laying down to permanent 

 pasture is now so much better understood than formerly, 

 many old pastures with bad herbage might be broken up, 

 a crop or two of corn taken to pay expenses, and afterwards 

 turned into a good pasture, instead of allowing it to remain 

 an indifferent one. Few people would think of laying 

 down light land for pasture, except for the convenience of 

 having grass on a particular part of a farm perhaps near 

 the farm-house. In such a case, inoculation is probably 

 best. On Mr. Coke's estates (where it was first introduced 

 by Mr. Blomfield, a tenant), it has succeeded excellently 

 well : but 1 have known it, in other counties, completely 

 fail. There has always appeared to me this disadvantage 

 in inoculation : the chief part of the best grasses have tap 

 roots, which are cut in two, in cutting the turf; and there- 

 fore I conclude perhaps erroneously will not grow. It 

 is to this, and sometimes to the very bad sort of turf that 

 has been made use of, that 1 attribute the failures that I 

 have seen. If land intended for permanent pasture is not 

 very foul, it may be got clean, to be sown with white turnips 

 in July, and the grass seeds sown in the spring, with a light 

 sowing of barley or oats, but if it has a great deal of twitch 

 in it, or the roots of thistles, docks, or nettles, it is better to 

 keep it on the fallow the whole summer, for if such roots 

 are not killed, they will send forth shoots that will be a 

 continual plague, se long as the land remains in pasture. 



LUCERNE. I grew it for my cart horses, for some 

 years, and thought it answered very well, but finding that 

 they liked vetches so much better, I now grow them instead 

 of lucerne. It should be sown in rows, about nine inches 

 apart, and about 121bs to the acre, in April or May ; but 

 should the fly take it, it may be sown in August. It must 

 be kept clean, for although it has an immense tap root, if 

 grass is suffered to grow round the top of the root, it will 

 destroy the plant. Some persons sow it broadcast, and as 

 much as 401bs. per acre. 



RYE-GRASS. The greater part of it sold is grown on 



