OBSERVATIONS ON GRASSES. 367 
ilovenly method of proceeding, as one would 
think could not polfibly prevail univerfally ; yet 
this is the cafe as to all graffes except the dar- 
nel grafs, and what is known in fome few 
counties by the name of the Suffolk grafs ; and 
this latter inftance is owing, i believe, more to 
the foil than any care of the hufbandman. 
Now would the farmer be at the pains of fe~ 
parating once in his life half a pint, or a pint 
of the different kinds of grafs feeds h , and take 
care 
2 . Others fay, that it is better to have a mixture of differ efit 
feeds . 1 will fuppofe this to be true . But cannot a mixture be 
had though the feeds be gathered , and J'eparated ? and is not a 
mixture by choice ?nore likely to be proper, than one by chance ? efpe - 
dally after a fujfcient experience has been had of the particular 
virtues of each fort , the different kinds of cattle each grafs is 
moft adapted to, the different grounds where they will thrive 
heft, & c. all which cicumftances are now in general whqlly un- 
known, though of the utmoft confequence. 
3. It is faid by fome, that weeds will come up along with the 
grafs. No doubt of it. Can any one imagine that grafs feeds 
Jhould be exempted above from what happens to every other kind 
of feed. But i will venture to fay, that not near the quantity of 
weeds will fpring up which they imagine , if it be fawn very 
thick . Men muft be very much put to it, when they make fuch 
objections as this laft, or indeed any of the others . I am almoft 
inclined to fay with a great writer, c It is a Jiniple thing to 
* take much pains to anfwer Jimple objections I 
h I have had frequent experience how eafy it is to gather the 
feeds of graffes, having employed children of ten or eleven years 
old 
