OF CURIOSITY, 
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The Jheep* s fefcue makes our ftxeep very fat. 
The perennial darnel is the belt grafs for 
hay on chalky hills. 
The fea lyme-grafs and fea mat-grafs keep 
the fands on barren maritime tra&s from being 
blown away. 
The moft minute feeds of grafs afford nou- 
rifhment to fmall birds. The grajfes befides 
give a moft agreeable color to the earth, and 
fill up the intervals between plants of other 
kinds; fo that they ferve both for pleafure, 
and utility. The Creator has affigned certain 
fpecies of grafs to every different fpecies of 
foil, which the hufbandroan is obliged to know 
in order to make the moft advantage of his 
lands. Befides certain graffes are eat by fome 
animals, and left untouched by others ; fo that 
without the knowledge of thefe he cannot 
avoid falling into error. It, Scand, 
§* 9 * 
He that would exercife the art of hufban- 
dry with the greateft advantage, ought to en- 
deavor to get acquainted with all kinds of 
vegetables, and find out what fort of foil fuits 
each of them beft. He ought to know, that 
fome delight in open and expofed fituations, 
others in lhady ; fome in moift grounds others 
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