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ARTIFICIAL GRASSES. 
On a farm called the Sink, lately purchased and 
taken in hand by A. Lechmere, Esq. the grass-land 
being a moist loam, on a clay bottom, and having 
been neglected, a good deal of coarse herbage appears; 
the season was unfavourable for examining it, but I 
could discern the following: dyer’s broom, proyin- 
cially here wood-wick (genista tinctoria), thorny rest- 
barrow (ononis spinosa), wild carrot (daucius carota), 
and rushes \ these Mr. Lechmere hopes to destroy by 
draining, top-dressing, and rooting up, without plough¬ 
ing up the land to bring it to a proper herbage. 
SECT. II.—ARTIFICIAL GRASSES. 
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The artificial grasses usually sown here are red and 
white clover, trefoil, and ray-grass; or, on the vale 
land, sometimes hay-seeds from the loft; these are 
sown in the spring, and most commonly with barley, 
but sometimes with wheat. 
At Wolverley, Mr. Knight always lays his land to, 
grass with barley after turnips; the seeds are about 
eight pounds of red clover, six pounds of white ditto, 
and two pecks of ray-grass, to an acre, seldom any tre¬ 
foil. At Worley Wiggorn, upon high cool land, Mr. 
Richard Miller sows eight pounds of red clover, eight 
pounds of white ditto, and a bushel of ray-grass, to an* 
acre; the land to lay several years at pasture: where 
land is sooner broken up, it is usual to sow ten or 
twelve pounds of red clover, three or four of white, 
three or four of trefoil, and only a peck of ray-grass, 
to an acre } but the quantity sown yaries according tQ 
the 
