42 PRACTICAL NOTES ON GRASSES AND GRASS GROWING. 
winter will prevent it from growing, and will render the 
grasses so vigorous that they are enabled to outgrow the moss 
in the spring. Unfortunately, our experience tells us that 
when moss is apparently exterminated from land in due time 
it appears again, if at all neglected, as bad as ever; but one 
must not be discouraged by this, as perseverance generally 
masters all things in the long run. It may be as well to also 
bear in mind that strengthening the soil encourages grass and 
weakens moss. 
When horses have been grazed for some time on a pasture 
it is imperative to follow them with cattle, or the pasture will 
deteriorate in a few years beyond recognition; and for the 
reasons we have before alluded to sheep should always follow 
and not precede any other kind of stock. A pasture must 
be fed evenly, otherwise the best grasses die out whilst inferior 
ones flourish, and, as a result, a first-class pasture sinks to the 
third or fourth-rate level. 
In the management of pastures one must avoid above alll 
things jumping at conclusions, and one must not rest satisfied. 
with first or even second results, because seasons vary so much 
in our tight little island that it takes many years of careful 
observation to arrive at true deductions. 
