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changes into its tissues, structures or parts, elements different from the 
others, the animals fed thereon will not only eat the fresh food with greater 
avidity, but they will digest and assimilate it better than if fed upon ono 
kind alone, and some will grow, thrive, and fatten quicker upon it. And 
further, from the peculiar habits of growth, and their root and leaf action, 
the different species of grasses will, either in mixed pastures or alone, extract 
from the soil, the water, and the air, exactly such qualities and quantities of 
the elements as will build up their own tissues and products, and which 
they alone will be able to present in that peculiar form to the animals fed 
thereon; thus, from the very same fields and farms, the many different 
varieties, species, and genera of grasses, will not only grow and give larger 
quantity than one kind alone, but will present to the animals fed on 
this field or farm, a far larger number and amount of chemical 
elements than ean any one or two species, and it does not require a 
very profound knowledge of physiology and dietetics to understand that 
varieties of food are very beneficial, for though to men and women a beef 
steak, or a vonsion haunch, may be very delightful occasionally, yet if 
they had only these all their lives for every meal, they would have to be 
starved into eating them; and precisely so with our sheep and cattle cating 
rye-grass and clover ali their lives, yet they would thrive much better, and 
pay their owners more quickly, if fed on forty or fifty different species of 
grass and fodder plants. It is well known that the cheese made in certain 
parts of the world, cannot be made elsewhere, and this is because the 
animal cannot obtain the same food and assimilate its elements in other 
places. For while botanists have found over forty kinds of plants in the 
fields of Leicestershire, Gloucestershire, Huntingdonshire, and Cheshire, 
besides other places, and upon any of them the pedigree sheep and cattle 
can feed at their pleasure, it is hardly likely that they will thrive and pay as 
well when forced to live on two or three kinds. And while in the several 
parts of the earth, whether upon the Swiss mountains, the Dutch water 
meadows, the wild pastures of the Cape, America, or Australia, the animals 
fed there develope certain qualities and excellences, without you can provide 
them with the same grasses and fodders they will not do the same else- 
where. But in this favourable land of ours here we can, if we will, make 
these plants grow and thrive upon our fields and pastures, and our sheep 
and cattle will benefit by these introductions and being fed thereon. Now 
that population is pouring into this Colony, and the land will have to be 
more highly tilled and fully worked, it will be necessary to make the same 
quantity of land more profitable and yield a larger return per acre, and 
therefore the pastoralist must sow down fifty or sixty species of grasses, 
where before he has sown only one or two, and the farmer, if he wishes to 
