Splenic Apoplexy. 
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" Little Foot's Mead." — Good grasses prevail ; buttercups few ; 
dry : no disease. 
" Eaytaond's Ground." — A diy pasture; cutting a fair weiglit of 
grass ; but this consists of inferior species. 
" Webb's Ground." — A dry soil, of tbe same kind as the last, 
only parted by a hedge. This field has been manured six or seven 
times in ten years. Some ten years since it did not belong to the 
farm ; it had been badly treated, but is now improving. There 
Avere cases of disease here in 1859. 
The analysis of the herbage of these two fields is given by way of 
contrast with that on Mr. Bradley's farm. From this it will be seen 
that plants other than grasses were either absent or so scarce as not 
to be worth noticing. 
Plan'ts in (1) Raymond's Ground, (2) Webb's Ground. 
BoUnical Name. 
Trivial Name. 
Proportionals. 
L 
2. 
Hordeum pratense .. 
Cvnosurus cristatus 
Lolium perenne 
Dactylis glomerata .. 
Holcus lanatus 
Avena flavescens 
Anthoxanthum odoratum 
Trifolium pratense .. 
repens .. 
Soft brome, or lop grass . . 
Cocksfoot 
20 
10 
5 
3 
1 
3 
3 
5 
2 
3 
10 
5 
1 
12 
13 
These two lists ofler some curious distinctions, the quantity of lop 
in (1), and its absence in (2). In (2) the rj-e-grass was remarked 
as small in size, and it was found only to have been sown in 1861. 
Sowing good grasses with clovers may be mentioned as a plan for 
ameliorating these pastures, if united with manuring and less hay- 
making. 
A general review of the pastures of this farm offers convincing 
proof that although drainage has not been overlooked nor cultivation 
neglected, yet there is great poverty, not so much in the quantity as 
in the quality of the herbage ; and this poverty has not so much 
reference to poorly grown good species as in the general absence of 
these, and the abundant presence of the more innutritions kinds. 
These pastures as a whole appear to me to have undergone in past 
years exhaustive treatment, and though now beginning to improve, 
they will yet require a long time to get them to what they may 
become. 
As a summary of the whole subject of my inquiry, I would re- 
mark in conclusion : 
1st. — That the tart lands of Somerset are situate for the most 
part on poor unmitigated lias clays, which from the want of cultis- 
