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nutritious qualities ; that grass which is most exposed 

 to the sun being best. Woodland pastures will keep 

 young stock growing, and old ones on foot, but will 

 not fatten them. A three-year-old Durham will get 

 'stall fat' in a year on open blue grass." 



A farmer of Massachusetts says : " Grass grown in 

 the shade is lighter, and does not contain so much nutri- 

 ment. Wet seasons increase the weight and bulk of the 

 crop ; but the same weight does not contain the amount 

 of nutritive matter of hay raised in a dry seaso,n." And 

 another : " Hay grown in a dry season contains more 

 nutriment. This is particularly noticeable in the con- 

 dition of cattle in the spring following a dry season. I 

 do not consider grass grown in a dense shade worth 

 over half price." '' From an experience of fifty j^ears 

 in making hay, and thirty-five in feeding it out and sell- 

 ing it," says an intelligent practical farmer, " I should 

 say that in a wet season I never found anything like so 

 much heart or ntrtriment in hay as in a drj' one. Grass 

 grown under a thick, shady tree is not worth one-half 

 as much as that grown in the sun. The grass this year 

 (1856) was well set in the spring, and grew very quick 

 when the warm weather came on; but still we had much 

 good, warm sun to bring it to maturity, and I think it 

 will spend pretty well, but probably not quite as well 

 as the same bulk last year. " 



It is not necessary to multiply the authorities of 

 practical farmers on this point, since they uniformly 

 coincide with the testimony given above ; and it ma}' 

 be regarded as fully established as the result both of 

 scientific investigations and of practical experience, that 

 both the quantity and the quality of grass are in pro- 

 portion to the heat or sunlight and the moisture in 

 which it is grown. 



What has been said will explain the allowance which 



