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Nature has provided in all permanent pastures a 
mixture of various grasses, the produce of which 
differs at different seasons. Where pastures are to 
be made artificially, such a mixture ought to be 
imitated; and, perhaps, pastures superior to the 
natural ones may be made by selecting due pro- 
portions of those species of grasses fitted for the 
soil, which afford respectively the greatest quanti- 
ties of spring, summer, latter-math, and winter 
produce. A reference to the details in the Appen- 
dix will show, that such a plan of cultivation is 
very practicable. 
The propagation of grasses by layers has lately 
given rise to a considerable improvement in the 
formation of pasture, by what has been called in- 
oculation. A certain portion of old pasture is re- 
moved with the roots of the grasses and a part of 
the soil, and planted (as it were) in arable land at 
certain intervals. By the spreading of the layers, 
a surface of grasses is speedily formed, and the old 
pasture, if too much of it be not removed, soon 
recovers itself in consequence of the operation of 
the same principle. This improvement has arisen 
in the same place where agriculture has so long 
been an object of unremitted and patriotic exer- 
tions. Mr. Coke’s steward is the author. 
In all lands, whether arable or pasture, weeds of 
every description should be rooted out before the 
seed is ripe ; and if they are suffered to remain in 
hedge-rows, they should be cut when in flower, 
or before, and made into heaps for manure : in 
this case they will furnish more nutritive matter in 
their decomposition ; and their increase by the dis- 
