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therefore, after having born two or three grain- 

 crops, is laid down in grass, and allowed to ly 

 in that condition for seven or eight, or, perhaps, 

 a greater number of years. 



Of the land of a superior quality, and in a 

 higher state of cultivation, there is also a part 

 annually in pasture. This consists partly of 

 parks laid down in grass by proprietors, and 

 occasionally broken up for grain ; and partly of 

 land under a regular course of cropping, but re- 

 verting more quickly to tillage. 



Of meadow-ground there are also several con- 

 siderable tracks, besides many detached spots of 

 smaller extent, scattered over the county. The 

 quality of the meadow-grass is various. Some 

 of it is exceedingly good ; but the largest pro- 

 portion is coarse ; very fit, however, for the 

 winter-food of young cattle ; and, when well 

 got up, good food for any cattle, while feeding 

 on turnip. The quantity of each of the diffe- 

 rent kinds of pasture and meadow-ground, just 

 now mentioned, cannot be easily ascertained. 

 But the whole cannot be reckoned less than 

 140,000 acres* 



SECT. II. ARTIFICIAL GRASSES. 



RYE-GRASS, and red and white CLOVVRS, are 

 the artificial grasses most commonly sown. 

 Some years ago the cultivation of these was 

 very limited. But now they are to be seen on 

 almost every farm ; and many farmers raise them 

 in such abundance, that they can not only sup~ 

 ply themselves plentifully, but dispose of a ecu- 



