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“ Middle and home ground.”—Little of good grasses ; grips 
full of Aira ccespitosa : disease. 
“ Pill-Bridge ground.”—Laid down six years; rye-grass, 
and Dutch clover prevails; no disease. 
“ Beaton’s Leas.”—Improved by cutting up the tussac 
-grass. Considers it at present the best meadow in summer. 
“Little Foot’s Mead.”—Good grasses prevail; buttercups 
few; dry : no disease. 
“ Raymond’s Ground.”—A dry pasture; cutting a fair 
weight of grass; but this consists of inferior species. 
“Webb’s Ground.”—A dry soil, of the same kind as the 
last, only parted by a hedge. This field has been manured 
six or seven times in ten years. Some ten years since it did 
not belong to the farm ; it had been badly treated, but is now 
improving There were cases of disease here in 1859’ 
The analysis of the herbage of these two fields is given by 
way of contrast with that on Mr. Bradly’s farm. From this 
it will be seen they are free from plants other than grasses, 
or which were so scarce as not to be worth noticing. 
Plants in (1) Raymond’s Ground (2) Webb’s Ground. 
Botanical Name. 
Trivial Name. 
Proportionals. 
1 . 
2. 
Bromus mollis 
Soft brome, or lop grass 
Meadow barley 
20 
Horcleum pratense 
10 
5 
Cynosurus cristatus 
Crested dogstail 
5 
2 
Lolium perenne 
Rye-grass 
3 
3 
Dactylis glomerata 
Cocksfoot 
1 
— 
Holcus lanatus 
Woolly soft grass 
3 
10 
A vena flavescens 
Oat-like grass 
— 
5 
Anthoxantkum odoratum 
Sweet vernal grass 
— 
1 
Trifolium pratense 
Red clover \ 
3 
12 
„ repens 
Duicli clover J 
13 
These two lists offer some curious distinctions, the quantity 
of lop in (1), and its absence in (2). In (2) the lop was 
remarked as small in size, and it was found only to have been 
sown in 1861. Sowing good grasses with clovers may be 
mentioned as a plan for ameliorating these pastures, if united 
with manuring and less hay-making. 
A general review of the pastures of this farm offers con- 
