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tiply the value of your pasture grounds by frequent 
changings, and your stock will have a regular succes- 
sion of fresh feed, untrodden, and otherwise unin- 
jured ; the advantages of this will soon be perceived 
in your stock generally ; but will be most evident in 
your dairy. Your cows are the prime object of 
your pasture grounds ; therefore never suft’er your 
horses or sheep to enter your dairy pastures ; they 
not only crop close, and thus protract the time for 
the regular successive croppings ; and also, expose 
your pastures to the scorching rays of the sun, espe- 
cially in time of drought ; but they also select the 
finest and choicest feed, which will afl'ord the great- 
est nutrition to your cows, and thus destroy your best 
interest. Your division fences in your pastures, de- 
signed for your cows, or cattle, and horses, may be 
made light, with two or three rails only, if of a good 
height ; no adjoining ci’ops of tillage will induce your 
stock to break out of their enclosure ; but your fences 
dividing off your pastures from your tillage enclo- 
sures, cannot be too secure ; you may then till with 
safety, and rest with security, without damage, or 
anxiety. Where water is scarce, and difficult to be 
obtained for your pastures, (when multiplied as 
above,) you may select some small stream, spring, 
or pond, or even a reservoir of water, such as an ar- 
tificial pond, or large trough, supplied from some 
neighbouring spring, and enclose your pastures so as 
to have four or more enclosures centre in, or upon 
the brook, pond, or reservoir, and thus secure water 
for the whole. I have seen careful farmers, water 50 
or 60 acres, or more, (from one pond or spring,) when 
divided into separate enclosures, in this manner. A 
little experience will soon show the value of this 
mode of improving pasture grounds, and lead to a 
practical knowledge highly interesting, and valuable 
to ottr country. 
Plaster, or live ashes, sown upon your pasture 
grounds, will not only repay a handsome profit, by 
