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feparate heads; we mall now confider thern 

 jointly. It is well known that all land will be 

 more profitable by having a green crop one 

 year, and a white crop another; and fo on al- 

 ternately : therefore, as rye-grafs is a kind of 

 white crop, like wheat or rye, and drawing a 

 nourifhment different from that of trefoil or 

 clover; it will, no doubt, be admitted that the 

 three are proper to be fown together, and that 

 they are thus likely to be more productive than 

 any one of the forts fown feparate ; for they affift 

 each other, like true friends, throughout the 

 feafon. Rye-grafs, by far the hardieft, peeps 

 forth and foon rears its head in the fpring: as 

 the mild weather advances, trefoil comes for- 

 ward : and laftly the warm feafon ufhers in 

 white-clover. At the time the white-clover 

 approaches to maturity, the fun has a fcorch- 

 ing power extremely detrimental to it : but the 

 mifchief is prevented by the made which the 

 bent of the rye-grafs affords it. 



Hay-feeds are very properly fo called; for 

 they are indeed the feeds of hay, and confe- 

 quently a collection of good, bad, and indiffe- 

 rent fluff. They are fcarce ever to be met 

 with frtc from a noxious mixture. How mould 



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