2.00 RAV-GRASS. BURNET. 



Mr. Hill, I- remarked, tliat ray had been sown with 

 clover, oil n soil perfeflly adapted to the latter plant ; and 

 coiKiwiining the practice, Mr. Hill agreed, and made 

 an observation that deserves noting : ray is sown with the 

 clovcT, and if from a bad delivery of the seed, from the 

 •wind driving the lightest further, or from any other cause, 

 some of the land misses its plant of ray ; the clover in 

 such spots is much more vigorous ; a sure proof of the 

 exhausting quality of the ray. 



Mr. Coke, on his fine farm at Holkham, used to sow 

 Tay-graso with sainfoin, but has left off the practice, and 

 in general sows as little as possible of the grass, being con- 

 vinced that it exhausts ; his corn is not so good after it, 

 as where it has not been sown. 



Mr. Overman had half a field sown with ray, trefoil 

 and white clover; the other halt with the two latter plants 

 only. When the whole was broken up for wheat, the 

 crop was much the better where no ray had been sown ; 

 the difference so great as to be visible at the distance of half 

 3 mile. 



Mr. Haver's bailiff obseived to me, that the less ray- 

 grass is sown the better, as he never found it kind for 

 wheat : pease do better on it. 



BURNET 



Was introduced at Stoke 35 years ago, as I then regis- 

 tered, with great success ; but it never made any progress, 

 though it yielded luxuriant food for many horses in February. 



The reputation of this plant made so much noise in the 

 world, that Mr. Coke formed an experim.ent at Holk- 

 ham, to examine carefully its merits, and, with the spirit 

 that charadterizes his husbandry, sowed 40 acres, mixing 

 a small quantity of white clover and rib-grass with it. — 

 The result was as decisive as can be imagined ; the field 

 has been fully and incessantly stocked with sheep, and was 



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