CHAPTER III. 
PERMANENT PASTURE. 
SIAVING cultivated entirely for the grain crop and 
|) sown the one year’s ley in an unsuitable seed bed, 
perhaps half smothered by the growing corn, it 
should be the good husbandman’s duty, as soon as 
he has completed harvest, to look after the young layer. 
Why it is that this point so often escapes attention astonishes 
us not a little. 
No one would think of letting their children run wild with- 
out taking them in hand and getting them well under control, 
until, say, they arrived at the age of twelve or fourteen years, 
and at the same time expect them to do as well as those whose 
minds had been prepared to receive a suitable education. In 
the same manner the farmer cannot reasonably expect his 
seeds to do well after their root bed has been neglected for an 
entire year, unless he at once takes the matter in hand, and 
does all he can at the earliest possible opportunity. It is 
astonishing to us how well the layers do succeed, when we 
consider the negligent manner in which they are generally 
treated. 
After harvest is over the layers should be most carefully 
examined, any spots that are found to be weak should be 
at once renovated, and the field consolidated by such a liberal 
use of the roll as may be thought necessary. On no account 
