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October following, and which continued a good graz- 
ing sheep pasture for three years after. If this be 
correct, it must have been under peculiar circum¬ 
stances of season or something favourable, as it is ge¬ 
nerally understood, that seeds then, sown alone would 
not, or but seldom, succeed, even if manured for.—See 
Mr. Knight’s experiment, Chapter VIII. Artificial 
Grasses ; where, though the land was only once 
ploughed, it worked fine and well. A much safer 
way would be to sow turnips, or if too late for that, 
fallow on for rye if a sandy, or for wheat if a loamy, 
soil, and sow grass seeds in the spring; and the crop 
may be forced by soot, or if not, the seeds may proba¬ 
bly succeed. I think the idea of fallowing for seeds 
alone inadmissible in practice, and should be very 
doubtful of the success of the seeds. 
He also advises to plough up turf land early in Au¬ 
gust, and to sow turnips upon the one ploughing, to be 
turnip fallowed the ensuing summer ; this may be tried 
■upon a small scale, but I fear the first turnips will sel¬ 
dom oe equal to the autumn grazing of the land, after 
which, it is time enough to give the first ploughing of 
turf land for turnips. Had not this extra labour better 
be bestowed on early oat or wheat stubbles, which, if 
they can be ploughed and sown with turnips in August, 
often produce a good spring sheep pasture, from the 
turnips mixed with the shoots of the shed grain ? 
He lays it down as a leading rule, to sow no grain 
upon light land, except after turnip fallow. This may 
be a good rule when such land is foul and impove¬ 
rished, but when cleaned and manured, and grazed for 
two or three years, it will certainly admit of one crop 
before the turnip fallow, and one after, without danger, 
of injuring the land ; the turnip fallow managed early, 
and 
