THE AFTER MANAGEMENT OF CLOVERS AND PASTURES. Ar 
preference to other feeding stuffs, but we are strong advocates 
of meal, regulating the constituents thereof according to 
weather and the herbage, and at the same time exercising the 
teachings of practical experiments savoured with theory, which 
is invariably the course adopted by prudent men. 
When writing on alternate mowing and feeding, we touch 
4 very controversial subject. Many farmers declare this 
practice impossible without in a measure destroying their 
pastures ; but practice proves the contrary, at least when the 
mowing is properly conducted. After mowing feed down well, 
and whenever convenient lay a flock, which have fed else- 
where during the daytime, upon the meadow at night, or the 
flock must be well fed whilst it is on the meadow. 
During the winter months, the meadow should be liberally 
dressed with manure, well harrowed, and rolled in the early 
‘spring ; but this practice must not be carried on year after 
year, or many valuable feeding grasses may be destroyed, and 
it would be difficult to return to the alternate system, unless 
these feeding grasses were renewed by the re-sowing of suitable 
renovating mixtures. A pasture which is required to be 
always mown, or one which is required to be always fed, must 
be laid down expressly for the purpose for which it is required, 
whereas the alternate mowing and feeding requires, and will 
keep going, all grasses suitable to the particular kind of soil 
on which they are sown, and the selection of the seeds entails 
no little skill to ensure successful results. 
If a pasture is troubled with weeds, the roll and the scythe 
should be used with perseverance and a will, which soon shows 
effect ; but moss is not so easily disposed of, because it grows 
mostly in the winter, and thrives better where the meadow has 
been best farmed and left closely fed or mown down in the 
autumn. 
One way to deal with moss is to cover it over with farmyard 
manure or mould, which when well jammed in by stock in the 
