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stocked down to grass. AT the end of ak
years the FIVE lots will have been COM
pletely renovated. and the same Course
commenced a second time. Thus the sys-
TEN may be indefinitely continued, yielding
an unbroken succession of remuneratng
grain crops and pasturage of the finest
quality.
In single instance which came to the
notice of one of the committee, the guam
tity of grass produced by this mode of cul-
tivation was, he believes, nearly quadrupled
while the quality was improved in a much
greater ratio.
The committee are aware that many ex-
perienced cultivators, whose opinions are
entitled to the highest respect, are strongly
opposed to the practice of pasturing reno
vated lands until the third year after seed
ing; and they seriously question whether
any advantage results from ploughing such
lands for the purpose of renovation. 1t is
hoped that valuable information will be de-
rived from the experiment on the applica-
ton of manures, which will probably be
made by the county societies under the d.
rection of this board.
If it should be proved by the proposed
experiment that manures applied to the
surface are of equal efficacy with those
narrowed or ploughed in, and thus moor.
porated with the soil, then the plan above
suggested may readily give place to the sys-
tenn of surface manuring.
have read this report, Mr.. President,
because once knew the author and had
great respect for his intelligence, honesty
and good judgment, and because / desired
to show that even from such source we
could derive nothing very positive or def
mite on the question before us. The ex-
pertinent proposed by this committee could
not possibly be applied to remote or billy
or rocky pastures with any chance of sue
cess, on account of the enormous cost which
would attend it. You cannot apply to n
pasture the same mode of cultivation which
you apply to piece of moving land, I'M
less you are willing to add very largely to
the cost of the land, without expecting an
ample or even a reasonable reward.
agree, therefore, with the conclusions we
reached at the last meeting, viz rest, de-
stroying bushes and weeds, and the appli-
cation of fertilizers to the surface. | can
show you, to-day, piece of pasture land
of about twenty acres, level, easily plough
ed, free from stones, and just such land as
can be easily and economically handled
whether for pasturing or tllage. Three
years ago one half of this pasture was
ploughed, planted one year to corn, man
ureu reasonaoiy, anu seeded lne next.
Since that time it has been fed down by
milch cows. The other half has been let
alone. the owner not having vet oct ready
to extend the plouehing and cultivating.
Now, II you Will visit that pasture any day
in the months of June or July, when the
1eed ought TO pc as GOOD as the land Will
yield, you VIII md the cultivated land to
be SIN broken, the sod uneven and not uni
form, the grass scanty, weeds springing up
mere ana there' ana the amount OF feed
quite small. on the nall winch has not
e esen surface tbickiy and uniformly cover
oil venture TO saw that there is more
than twice the amount of feed on the latter
half than there il ON the former. And I
think every member of this Club would
agree with me that upon the upploughed
niece there ia a vastly better chance To use
win advantage MASTER or ashes or anv 9TH
or fertilizer. Than there is upon the niece
which has been plouphed. cultivated. and
MANFRED know am reneatino some
what the remarks of the last meeting: but
the question ia one of an much imnortance
and one also on which we have still 40
much IN learn. or unlearn and don't know
exactly which. that trust the gentlemen
present will excuse me for travelling over
Ground with which thew are already IA
miliar.
NJ. .oo,. Tho aoou
ni no"e 'oUN '"' ,''0i a' '''' POM "'''
SAID: u nave listened WIN great interest
to the remarks made at the last meeting of
the club and IN the report read this even.
inc Inv MIR Thomas with valuable com
ments of his own. unon tbe management
of nastnres can easily see that the minds
of those who have discussed The Question
are occupied bv the best methods to be an.
nlied 10 large. remote OUTLYING lands which
unless pastured. would either be living
waste or GROWING IN To wood prnat tbal
the difficulties surrounding the MANAGEMENT,
any renovation of lands like these are yc1,
gieat But | have in nv mind some small
er farms. so situated that a portien of then
must he need for nosturiug where think
that a more elaborate system than has beer
nronosed hore NAV be adonted with orea
henefit More than fiftv wears aro' m,
father who "a Won we'll Know was cler
gvma, who divided his time. ne all his con
femnoror;es d;d between his nar;sh and hi
iond nrrchoeed an estate of ion acres fo
his homestead II was n strong somewha
heavy niece Of land seven acres of whicl
was jeyeI elevated nIain and three acre
Of whicb occnnied Tho slone of Hill. Non
Of ,he lanI vas in rood CONDITION and
,ros thornht bes+ 70 smbiect the wbole n
rniforr, systen of renovation before divid
inc II into such lots rs m;sht no needed fo
,hss va,ions nnrnoses nf n small farm
Whom the hriIdinrs had boon erected an
he walls and fences compIeted the entir
to,, $50 49,, 49,, undor tho oo,rs, of cu
tivat;on in fashion that time The crop,
f With the eycention of n small match for
, ,rarJon x,ere corn and notatoes and oras
IN the common rotation. The hillside wo
The least nromising and most trouhlesom
! mart of the farm heinz uneven snrinr,
: and covered in many nlaces with brak,
: roots and hassocks But these were all r.
t moved and the land Welded great crons ,
! notatoes. ms I we'll remember. excelle,
corn. fair cron of harley and very bea,
4 crons of grass 10 which the lot seemed
be especiallv adapted. In the course
four or five wears after the clearing al
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