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very badly cultivated farms, and therefore very often full of 

 twitch seed, which is difficult to distinguish from rye-grass, 

 being similarly formed, although with a much longer tail. 

 Rye-grass should not be sown for a one year's clover ley. 

 The Italian rye-grass is said to be the most productive and 

 best. My first crop is now growing for seed, and promises 

 to answer my best expectations. I have little doubt but 

 that after the crop is carted -off, and the land manured,! shall, 

 with one ploughing, get a good fair crop of white turnips. 



For a CLOVER LEY, to remain one year only, ISlbs. of 

 broad clover, without any rye-grass : for two years lOlbs. 

 of broad clover, Gibs, of Dutch, 4lbs. of trefoil, and halt' u 

 bushel of rye-grass to the acre. Clover, or seeds of any 

 kind, cannot be sown by hand any thing like so well, or so 

 expeditiously, as by a machine, such as I have used for 

 five-and- twenty years. It is a long box, wheeled on a sort 

 of barrow, the seed forced out by brushes, from twenty-one 

 openings, each having one large hole for rye-grass, and 

 twelve small holes, to let out clover, or any other seed ; and 

 according to the uumber of small holes left open, will be 

 the number of pounds sown to the acre. Clover-seed and 

 rye-grass can be sown mixed, but they are best sown sepa- 

 rately ; each sort is thus more evenly scattered over the 

 land. It was originally made at Farnham, but the patt nt 

 being out, it is now made in different parts of the kingdom. 

 It was intended also to sow turnips broadcast, but as that is 

 not my practice, I had a row of ten pipes suspended below 

 the box ; it will therefore drill them, ten rows at a time, 13 

 inches apart, on land that has an even surface. 



NETTLES. The most effectual way to destroy them on 

 grass land is, to cut the turf in which they grow, pull the 

 nettles out of it, dig the roots out of the earth, and then put 

 the turf down again. 



THISTLES are very difficult to destroy, in grass land. 

 After trying various ways, i have found that pulling them 

 up with a pair of pincers in May, when the grass is of some 

 length, and a full crop of grass is to be afterwards mown, 

 few thistles will come up the next year, and not a quarter 



