40 PRACTICAL NOTES ON GRASSES AND GRASS GROWING. 
spread evenly over the surface; as soon as the spring winds 
had dried this moulding, renovating seeds were sown, roots 
and corn carted to the field, and hoggets were folded on 
it. This formed a crust, and the nature of the pasture was 
completely and permanently changed for the better; the 
rushes also entirely disappeared. 
Another spring experiment was tried on a marsh, where the 
clay ouse sub-soil obtained by cutting a new drainage dyke, 
was utilised as moulding. Here the beneficial results were 
still more striking. . 
On a subsequent accasion hoggets were folded and fed 
during a dry October, but this time the results were most 
disappointing, and the pasture was injured. 
Should the farmer have no empty cows, in calf heifers, or 
other hungry stock, we would recommend the use of salt, 
which can be sown over the rougher portion of the pasture. 
This often induces the cattle to feed there. Daily he should 
cut the rougher places, mixing the herbage thus cut with 
old hay, chaff, and salt, and laying it in a lump for a day or 
two until heat commences to generate, then add corn or cattle 
meal, and feed the grazing animals with it, providing a trough 
(Gf it can conveniently be done) for each. We have utilised. 
petroleum casks cut in halves, and rough boxes knocked up 
from any odd boards for this purpose. When these troughs 
are first introduced the master bullock will run from box to 
box, but if they are placed wide apart he will soon learn from 
experience that his journeys are not productive of satisfactory 
results, and he will be content with the first box he comes to, 
or a box to which he shows a particular preference. The 
boxes may then be put closer together. 
We would also advise the farmer to move his boxes daily, 
‘and strengthen them by cross pieces on the bottom; besides, 
this raises them from the ground, and has other advantages. 
By feeding thus there is no waste. Some advocate cake in 
