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I^RODUCTION OF 



Sf.ct.:XVIII. i.i. 



foil fprings up, and becomes food for the flieep 



fter vvhicli 



the white clover fucceedsi and after this is confumed, the rye-?rafs 



n fprings up, and fupplies food during the winter months, if 

 ther proves tolerably mild ; ai 



d he furth 



ff( 



th 



d 



more 



f flieep 



ft may be thus nourifhed th 



any other 



means. Experienced Farmer, Vol. I. p. 88. 



r 



For the produdion of a meadow much fuperlor to thofe common! 

 feen Mr. Curtis recommends fix kinds of grafs and two of clover t 



be fowed 

 portions. 



th 



feeds are to be mixed together in the following p 



Meadow foxt 



lopecurus pratenfi 



P 



meado 



fefcue, feftuca pratenfis, one pint 



poa pratenfis, half a pint 



fmooth ftalked. meadow-grafs 



h flalked meadow -grafs, poa 



half 



pint 



fted dog's-tail, cynofu 



flatus, 



a 



q 



of 



pint ; fweet-fcented vernal grafs, anthoxaiithum odoratum, a quarter 



r 



of a pint; Dutch clover, trifoliura repens, half a pint ; red clover, tri- 



thefe feed 



s are 



to be mixed to2:ether^ 



folium pratenfe, half a pint ; 

 and about three bufhels to be fown on an acre in rows for the con- 

 venience of hoeing them. About the end of Auguft or bccjinnino- of 

 September they fhould be occafionally weeded and thinned, and roll- 

 ed in the fpring, to prefs down into the ground fuch roots as 



have been raifed by the froft 



tiiay 



6" 

 grafs 



Mr. Curtis thinks that meadow^ foxtail and rough ftalked mead 

 afs fuit moift foils the heft ; and that the fmooth flalked mead 



d crefled dog's-tail fu 



dry pafl 



d 



ftly, that the 



meadow fefcue, and the fweet-fcented vernal erafs, fuit land eith 



d 



\ 



xnoift or moderately dry 

 times of flowering, i. 



3. Srnooth flalked meadow-grafs 

 5. Meadow fefcue. 



eives 



the following order of th 



Sweet- fcented vernal. 



Meadow foxt 



Art. Ag 



4 

 6. Crefled dog' 



Rough flalked meadow-grafs. 

 -tail. See Hall's Encycloped 



Not only new fown gralTes defigned for meadows, but the larger 

 graffes, which have the names of corn, as w^heat, oats, barley, may be 

 advantageoufly rolled, wheii dry, after frofl, which by expanding the 



water 



I 



