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care to fow them feparately; in a very little? 
time he would have wherewithal to ftock his 
farm properly, according to the nature of each 
foil, and might at the fame time fpread thefe 
feeds feparately over the nation by fupplying 
cld federal times , who have gathered many forts for me without 
making any mifiakes , after i had once fbewn the?n the forts i 
wanted. 
I have procured thus the creeping lent , the fine hent , the fheep'i 
fefcue, the crefied dog-tail, &c. inefficient quantities to begin a 
ftock , but for want of a proper opportunity of cultivating them, 
myfilf, or meeting with any one who had zeal enough to be flow 
a. proper care on them , my collections of this kind hitherto have 
only proved that the Jcheme is in itfelf feafible. 
This very year 1761, a little boy by my direction gathered as 
much of the crefied dog-tail in 3 hours by the fide of a road, as 
when Jhed, yielded upon weighing above a quarter pf a pound 
averdupois, perfectly free from hufks. As this feed is finall the 
Jkillfull will eafily judge how far fuch a quantity would go if 
properly employed. 
My very efiimable a?id ingenious friend Mr. Aldworth, who 
was witnefs of the faCl which i lafi mentioned , at my defer e or- 
dered a finall part of a meadow , near his feat at Stanlake , 
which had better graffes and lefs mixed than the reft, to be left 
unmowed till the feeds were fit for gathering * This piece yielded 
upon threfhing and fifting a fidl bufhel by meafure of almofi 
pure feed of the crefied dog-tail, hi cafe any one fhould be in- 
clined to follow this example, i think it highly neceffary to cb~ 
ferve that care mufi be taken to mow the grafs before it fheds ; 
that it be mowed very early in the morning before the dew it 
off the ground, and that it ought not be fpread as ii\ making hay , 
but left as it falls from the fey the a fuffeient time, and then gently 
turned over* 
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