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the nature of the soil, and the judgment of the occu¬ 
pier. 
Mr. Darke has converted five hundred acres and up¬ 
wards of arable land into pasture, and greatly in¬ 
creased its value. He lays down with white honey¬ 
suckle (trifolium repens), eight or ten pounds to 
an acre ; all other seeds except trefoil are injurious in 
these soils ; six or eight pounds of trefoil to the acre 
assists for one year only. 
Experiment .—A piece of seeds having missed, Mr, 
Knight had it ploughed up in August, and laid 
down with seeds upon the one ploughing; the soil a 
light sandy loam: no other crop was sown, but four 
tons of lime laid on per acre ; the produce judged not 
worth standing, was ploughed up the spring following 
for turnips. Observation. —Wheat, or rye, might have 
been sown, and seeds in the spring might have done 
better; or rye, or vetches, for sheep pasture, might 
have been followed by turnips.— W. P. 
Mr. Pomeroy observes, “ the grasses chiefly culti¬ 
vated to prepare pasture lands, are the red and white 
trefoil, with a mixture of natural grass-seeds. The 
following excellent mode of laying down grass-land, 
is adopted by Mr. Wakeman, of Buckford. Having 
prepared the land by a good summer-fallow, of at 
least three ploughings, he provides a collection of the 
choicest of the grass-seeds, which are found to flourish 
most upon the places adjoining to the land intended 
to be laid down. These seeds are obtained in the proper 
season of the year, at a small expense. The sorts 
principally made use of, are the anthoxarothum odo- 
satum, the poas trivialis pratensis et annua, alopecurus 
pratensis, the cynosurus cristatus, and the white, red, 
and 
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