WEST OEVOKSHIRE. in 



fome Diflrids. This gives firmnefs to the 

 load, and prevents its being fcattered by the 



way. 



The At-TERGRASS of mcafdows Is, here, 

 judicioully managed : it is fuffered to grov/ 

 to a full bite, but not to be overgrown, be- 

 fore flock be turned upon it. 



I have feen cattle put into a mea(Jow 

 immediately after the Hay was got out of 

 it, ** to pick about the hedges :" — an accu- 

 rate minutia of management. For the 

 herbage, which is then fucculent and edible 

 to ftore cattle, would, before the aftefgrafs 

 were ready to be pailured off, become unpa- 

 latable, and be altogether neglected by cows 

 or fatting flock, with frefh fucculent her- 

 bage before them. It would be evidently 

 wrong, however, to fuffer fuch cattle to 

 remain in frefh mown grounds, after they 

 have performed the principal intention. 



See Mid, Econ. Vol. IL P. 130. on 

 this fubjed* 



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