[ENT. 5TA. HALLJ 



THE 



CLIFTON PARK 5Y5TE/A 



OF FAR/niNG 



AND 



LAYING DOWN LAND TO GRASS, 



A GUIDE TO LANDLORDS, TENANTS, 

 AND LAND-LEGISLATORS. 



BY 



Robert H. Elliot, 



AUTHOR OF " "inK £xp£:riencbs of a planter," "gold, sport, and coffee 



PLANTING IN MYSORE," ETC. 



Being the Fourth Edition (with notes of Experiences up to November, 



1907) of "THE- AGRiqULTURAL CHANGES REQUIRED BY 



THESE TIMES." 



" TIte sttidt/ of grasses would be of great consequence to a nortJieirly mud 

 grazing kingdom. The botanist that eoiM improve the sward of the district 

 where he lived would be a useful member- of society ; to kaisb a thick turf 



ON A NAKED SOIL WOULD BE ■WORTH VOLUMES 01' SYSTEMATIC KNOWLEDGE ; 



and he would be the best Commonwealth's man that could occasion the growth 

 of two blades of grass where one alone tvas seen before." — Wliite's "Natural 

 History of Selborne." 



LONDON : 

 SIMPKIN, MARSHALL, HAMILTON, KENT & Co., Ltd. 



KELSO: 



J. & J. H. EUTHERPimD. 



1908. 



