PRACTICAL PAPERS—MIXED HUSBANDRY. 149 
elsewhere ; a destruction for which the coming generation will 
have no reason to be particularly thankful; but the length 
which this article has attained admonishes us to forbear. 
Mixed husbandry is composed of many branches of agriculture, 
which can best be treated separately, as well as in greater de¬ 
tail, in special articles upon those various branches, with a 
view to harmonize them all into a happy whole, in which the 
cultivation of the grasses and the keeping of cattle and sheep 
and a judicious rotation of crops must always hold the most 
prominent positions. 
